Mr Carter's appointments, such as those of Nick Stace, former director of campaigns and communications at Which?, and Jennifer Moses, former director of the lingerie firm Agent Provocateur, brought in unpaid to "spice up" policies, heightened tensions.
Thompson was photographed carrying an internal email from Helen Boaden, the BBC News director, saying that she had had lunch with Andy Coulson, the coalition government's director of communications, at which he had expressed concern "that we give context to our Spending Review Season".
I'm attending an internal communications conference, at which an agenda item is a convergence of capabilities of sorts -- specifically "the interplay of internal and external communications". The conference laid out issues and opportunities.
An important communications centre at which the Moscow-Warsaw railway and highway cross the navigable Berezina, it is also a major timberworking city and produces plastics, electrical automobile equipment, cranes, and glassware.
Vicki Cunningham is assistant director of communications at Bunac which organises overseas volunteer and work opportunities for young people.
That makes it easier to miscommunicate, says Sean O'Brien, senior vice president for strategy and communications at PGi, which provides technology platforms for virtual meetings.
"It's a beautiful business model," said Kathy Budinick, director for communications at Plum Creek, which owns 8.2 million acres nationwide, more than any other timberland company.
The campaign is being run by Barnaby Dawe, vice-president of marketing and communications at Turner, which is a subsidiary of Time Warner.
Leslie Cafferty, the head of global communications at Booking.com, which says it is the world's largest hotel booking site with a database of more than 900,000 properties, agreed.
In Atlanta, Nate Smeltz joined as vice president for Turner Sports content communications; he had most recently been director for communications at ESPN, which is owned by the Walt Disney Company and the Hearst Corporation.
Donna Kush, assistant vice president for corporate communications at Union Pacific, which is based in Omaha, said the ads were meant to call attention to the industry's role in the economy.
