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Plugged-in Wolff climbs ranks of power at utility group

Edison Electric Institute chief lobbyist traded journalism for politics at a young age; now uses connections to advocate for industry Wolff But for some well-meaning—and off-putting—advice from former CNN anchor Bernard Shaw, Brian Wolff might be a TV newscaster today. Shaw advised the Arkansas native, then a young staffer at the network, to take two years of voice and diction lessons if he wanted to be a news anchor, or else satisfy himself with working only in a southern market. "I felt it was a good time for me to go to the Hill," Wolff told CEO Update, who by then had caught the Washington bug. "My on-air future was going to be fairly limited." Since then, Wolff… Read More