Harry Anderson is Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications, for Tenet Healthcare Corporation.

Anderson, 62, is responsible for managing Tenet’s internal and external communications and media relations, as well as its corporate citizenship and senior management communications strategies.  He also works collaboratively to support the company’s employee and hospital-based communications, as well as its investor relations and government relations departments. He reports to Trevor Fetter, Tenet’s President and Chief Executive Officer.

Anderson was promoted to his current position in September 2004.  He joined Tenet as Senior Director, Strategic Communications, in July 1997 and was named Vice President, Corporate Communications in October 2000.
 
He has worked as a journalist, editor, columnist and corporate communications executive for more than 34 years. Before joining Tenet, Anderson held a variety of executive-level corporate communications positions in the entertainment industry, including Vice President, Corporate Communications, at Paramount Pictures.  He also served for five years as right-hand executive to the late entertainment mogul Brandon Tartikoff.  In addition, he has worked as a crisis communications consultant for a number of large companies in the health care, insurance and other fields.

From 1972 to 1990, Anderson worked in various positions at the Los Angeles Times, rising to the position of Deputy Business Editor from 1981 to 1989.  He also wrote a column, “California and Company,” which analyzed economic and sociological trends in California.

Anderson holds a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Washington and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of California, Los Angeles.  He has taught undergraduate journalism courses at California State University, Northridge, and graduate seminars at the University of Southern California.