FTC Chair Jumps To P&G Exec Suite

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras will step down next month to take a position with Procter & Gamble.

Majoras, who has been chairman since August 2004, had pushed P&G, among others, to self-regulate food marketing practices in an effort to help combat the child-obesity issue.

John Eggerton

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.