Advertising monolith GroupM announced Wednesday that CEO, Christian Juhl will step down, one week after Juhl was grilled by lawmakers on an alleged scheme to punish conservative news outlets by withholding advertisements.
“After five years the time is right for a fresh challenge, and I’m excited to get started in my new role,” Juhl said in an announcement, which said he will become president of corporate development for GroupM parent company WPP.
On July 10, Juhl and Daily Wire co-founder Ben Shapiro both testified to the House Judiciary Committee on whether private companies are colluding to blackball conservative media outlets for not echoing the government line on topics like the COVID lab leak theory.
Emails obtained by the committee indicate that GroupM’s Executive Vice President of Global Brand Safety, John Montgomery, plotted to withhold advertising from The Daily Wire…
