GLAAD Beefs Up Staff Over ‘Rising Threats’ to LGBTQ Community in Trump Era (Exclusive)

Viacom’s Rich Ferraro returns in senior role as GLAAD launches two new programs to assist journalists in real time

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Media watchdogย GLAAD is launching two new programs — and two key hires to go with them — in response to “rising threats” against the LGBTQ community in the age of Trump.

Rich Ferraro has been named GLAAD Chief Communications Officer, returning to the organization afterย a stint as a senior director in communications and public affairs at Viacom.

Ferraro will oversee the newly-created News & Rapid Response department, which will work in real time with journalists and outlets at large to “ensure that the media is accurately and fairly representing LGBTQ people in its reporting,” a GLAAD spokesperson told TheWrap.

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