Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, promotes Richard Russell...

Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, promotes Richard Russell to committee’s minority staff director … New America Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative names James Vasile director of open Internet tools project … Council for Research Excellence audience measurement group funded by Nielsen adds as members Jeffrey Graham, Google; Judy Vogel, Media Storm; and Tom Ziangas, AMC Networks … Pillsbury law firm’s Washington office hires communications lawyers from Dickstein Shapiro: Lew Paper, partner; Andrew Kersting, counsel.