Howard Finberg’s Memos, Presentations and Other Bits

A Collection of History via Documents

During my career path, through a variety of jobs and organizations, I’ve written memos; at some places hundreds of memos. I wrote memos about projects, reports about the future, updates on various trips.  These memos ranged from the interesting to the mundane. Some of the memos provide an interesting window on a particular time at a particular company.  Others reflect an interesting project or event. Overall, these documents provide an interesting look at newspapers and journalism during a turbulent period of history.

I’ve also given many presentations. So, I’ve created an area to shared those documents. Again, these files might provide a small piece of the history of the media industry during active [revolutionary?] times.

Hif pile of stuff

Some memos are interesting and they warrant inclusion in the “Analog to Digital” timeline. Others, not so interesting. They’ll be collected here.

This is also part of my goal to “de-stuff” our house of old files. I’ve scanned these memos and presentations and uploaded them here so the paper is recycled into something useful. Perhaps these memos might be turned into Starbucks coffee cups. That would be the “circle of life.”

Textbook: Visual Editing

I’ve also scanned and uploaded a textbook that I co-authored with Bruce Itule, a professor of journalism at Arizona State University.  We wrote “Visual Editing, a

Visual Editing textbook cover
Visual Editing cover

Graphic Guide for Journalists” in the late 1980s.  The textbook was published in 1990. Some of it is very out of date.  However, I believe the principles of good visual journalism are still relevant today. [Of course, we never dreamed of AI when it came to editing photos.] I’ve uploaded a PDF of the textbook for those who want to stroll down newspaper graphics, photo and design history.

I was very thankful to receive the support of many leading journalists.  These included Tony Majeri, Chicago Tribune, John Walston, USA Today, Robert Lockwood, design consultant, George Wedding, director of photography at Sacramento Bee, Pegie Stark, graphics editor, The Detroit News, Carolyn Lee, picture editor, The New York Times, Pete Leabo, news photo editor, Associated Press, San Francisco, and Lynn Stanley, editorial design director, The Boston Globe.

A more complete story can be found on this page.

Here are the sections of this collection:
Personal and media history
Workplaces
Industry associations
Projects
 Consulting
 Other, Interesting Stuff

 

All of these pages are under various states of construction. Check back often for updates. Thanks for your patience.