Journal Names Wisconsin News Chief

Bill Berra, most recently news director at Scripps Howard's WFTS-TV Tampa, Fla., has been tapped by Journal Broadcast Group Inc. as vice president, news, Wisconsin.

He will be responsible for WTMJ-TV Milawukee, and WGBA-TV Green Bay/Appleton.

It will be a homecoming for Berra, who began his TV career at WTMJ, before moving to news posts in Orlando, Phoenix, St. Louis, Memphis, and Columbus.

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.