Berry named editor for 2 Connecticut newspapers

TORRINGTON, Conn. (AP) — Digital First Media has named a new editor to oversee two of its newspapers in Connecticut, The Register Citizen in Torrington and The Middletown Press.

The editor, John Berry, has been online editor for The Times Herald in Norristown, Pa., since 2007.

Berry, a graduate of Temple University, joined the Times Herald as a staff photographer in 2000. He has attended the Knight Digital Media Center's Web 2.0 workshop and led training programs for Journal Register Company, which is operated by Digital First Media.

Berry will be based in Torrington.

Viktoria Sundqvist, who has been editor of the Middletown newspaper, was named investigations editor for the newspapers in Torrington and Middletown.

Ann DeMatteo has been named managing editor of The Middletown Press.