Avram Upped at ABC News

Eric Avram, senior producer of the law and justice unit at ABC News, has been named executive editor of specialized units.

The move expands his ovesight to the medical and business units, as well as legal.

Avram's most recent project was a division-wide series on bird flu. Before joining ABC, Avram was an attorney in New York.

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.