
Bill Miston
Bill Miston is an award-winning journalist, currently working for WITI-TV FOX6 in Milwaukee. He has more than ten years of journalism and reporting experience, having worked for Chicago, Champaign, Ill., Rockford, Ill., Green Bay, Wis., and Oklahoma City news operations.
Bill came to WITI from its Oklahoma City sister station, KFOR-TV, in April 2019 where he spent more than two years covering wildfires, state politics, crime, and local and federal courts. He also served as a fill-in anchor.
If Bill looks familiar to FOX6 viewers, that’s because he is. He previously worked as a reporter and fill-in anchor at WLUK-TV Fox 11 News in Green Bay for four-plus years, covering business/municipal development, crime, state and federal politics, and features reporting.
In 2016, Bill won the award for Best Sports Reporting Award in the state from the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association for the story of a high school athlete and college recruit forced to quit football because of concussions, and the effects that continued to impact his life.
Bill’s work as been featured on NBC, CNN, FOX News, The Associated Press and other television stations across the country.
Before arriving in Green Bay in 2011, he spent more than three years as a multimedia journalist, producer and fill-in sports anchor at Rockford’s NBC affiliate, WREX-TV. Bill also spent time working as a field producer, writer, editor and photographer in Chicago and Champaign, Ill. television newsrooms.
A native of Chicago’s south suburbs, he received a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2008, specializing in political science and speech communication.
Bill’s journalism career began at the University of Illinois, starting as a reporter with Illini Media Company — the independent, student-run media organization — in 2004.
Bill is excited to be back in Wisconsin. When he’s not working, you can usually find him hiking, camping, downhill skiing, or on an area body of water with (or without) one or two skis strapped to his feet. Bill is a show skier, 3-event competitive water skier, and certified ski instructor.
The latest from Bill Miston
Milwaukee street takeovers surge; leaders brace for summer: Open Record
FOX6 Open Record breaks down what street takeovers really look like on the ground, how social media is fueling their growth, and the troubling criminal elements now tied to some of the key suspects.
Nuisance properties: Milwaukee landlord drug case highlights issue
As tenants worry, advocates say a federal drug conspiracy case involving a Milwaukee landlord is part of a bigger issue with nuisance properties.
Milwaukee street takeover suspect targeted by FBI, police task force
Before prosecutors charged Ricky Alcantara-Hernandez in connection with a series of street takeovers in April, he was already on the radar of Milwaukee police and a federal task force.
UW-Milwaukee student trafficked, man accused taken into custody
A Johnson Creek man accused of trafficking a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student for months has been taken into custody.
Milwaukee street takeovers in April; South Milwaukee man accused
The Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office charged Ricky Alcantara-Hernandez with three counts of first-degree recklessly endangering safety and more.
Video: Glendale street takeover police chase, Illinois man charged
New video shows the Glendale police response to a street takeover and a high-speed chase that landed an Illinois man in custody and, later, court.
Masonic lodge theft, Milwaukee County judge denies bond change
A Milwaukee County judge denied a suburban Freemason lodge’s request to modify bond conditions for a husband and wife accused of stealing.
UW-Milwaukee student trafficked for months, man accused
A Johnson Creek man is accused of trafficking a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student for months, collecting thousands of dollars from her.
Milwaukee landlord held in custody; tenants urged to keep paying rent
Tenants of S2 Real Estate properties in Milwaukee are urged to keep paying rent and verify payments as landlord Sam Stair remains in federal custody in a sweeping drug case.
Properties rented to drug dealers, Milwaukee-area landlord accused
Prosecutors accuse a Milwaukee-area landlord of renting properties to drug dealers in exchange for kickbacks and tipping off tenants to law enforcement.









