In St. Paul, a cable access network that provides media training to low-income and under-served groups has appointed a new leader.

The St. Paul Neighborhood Network announced Thursday that it had selected Martin Ludden as executive director. Ludden, a public relations executive and lifelong St. Paul resident, was recently a government affairs and community investment manager with Comcast-Twin Cities and previously held outreach roles for Sen. Amy Klobuchar.

He has also served as a fundraiser for the Disabled American Veterans of Minnesota

Foundation, and from 2009 to 2010 served a combat tour as a staff sergeant and bridge crew chief with the U.S. Army in Iraq.