{"id":156192,"date":"2026-01-30T06:48:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T06:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/156192\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T06:48:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T06:48:35","slug":"port-of-oakland-appoints-new-director-of-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/156192\/","title":{"rendered":"Port of Oakland appoints new Director of Communications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"810\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Justin_Berton-696x810.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Justin_Berton\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Port of Oakland announced the appointment of Justin Berton to serve as its new Director of Communications, effective January 28, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Berton will serve as the agency\u2019s lead communications strategist and primary media liaison for the seaport, airport, commercial real estate, and utility holdings.<\/p>\n<p>Kristi McKenney, the Port of Oakland\u2019s Executive Director, expressed her statisfaction of adding Justin\u2019s expertise and deep knowledge of the Bay Area\u2019s media and government landscape to build a dynamic and proactive storytelling team.<\/p>\n<p>Berton previously worked at the Port of San Francisco and also served as the Director of Communications to Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf for five years.<\/p>\n<p>He was previously a journalist at the San Francisco Chronicle and East Bay Express.<\/p>\n<p>His media consultancy group, Berton Media, has created proactive media campaigns for regional civic leaders, government agencies, nonprofits, foundations, and private sector clients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Port of Oakland announced the appointment of Justin Berton to serve as its new Director of Communications,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-156192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}