Changes on BJ Business Desk

Notes from the inside on changes in the BJ Business Desk:

Business Editor Steve Berta left the Beacon Journal on May 8 to accept a position as A.M.E. Businsss of the Indianapolis Star. David Hertz, who has been working in Metro, has become interim business editor. Deputy business editor Dave Scott has gone back to reporting in the business department and business reporter John Russell is the new deputy. Likely successor to Berta is Mitch McKenney, deputy metro editor.

Elbert Starks III, who also left the newsroom staff on May 8, is going back to college to get a teaching degree. He said he couldn't be a student and work at ``big'' paper like BJ, but can do it back home in Fort Wayne, IN., which is paper he came from. He also has some elderly family members there.