Presentations, Speeches
and Articles by Howard Finberg

In 1988, under the direction of Mario Garcia, The Poynter Institute held a seminar titled: Writing/Graphics: Serving the Reader. This three-day seminar kicked off with an opening “debate” between Garcia and Roy Peter Clark, associate director of the Institute. It

In 1993 I taught a series of workshops or training sessions at the Straits Times newspaper in Singapore.  These sessions were aimed at the copy editors and visual editors of the newspaper.  Attendees also came from the Business Times publication,

I wrote an article the American Society of News Editors [ASNE] in October 1996 about how organizations need to rethink their structures and workflows when the introduce new technologies, such as pagination. Here’s my lead: Pagination is an “old” technology.

A presentation about technology projects at The Arizona Republic with the focus on IT leadership and projects for the future of the company.

From the July/August 1997 issue of TechNews, the magazine of newspaper operations published by the Newspaper Association of America published a story about the conversion of The Arizona Republic to a CCI Europe database publishing system. This was work I

Lotus Notes became an essential technology at Central Newspapers. We were fairly innovative. Innovative enough to be invited to the big user conference in September 1999.

This is a copy of a presentation I did at the American Press Institute in 1999 for a seminar about the future of newspaper design. We looked at the future of design in 20 years.

In 1999 I was asked to contribute to a book about pagination being published by the Society of News Design and the Association of News Editors. You can download the entire book from here. At the end of the article

This is a presentation given in 1999, best guess. It looks at the changes, internal and external, being caused by new digital technologies. It includes a couple of my favorite slides: The evolution of publishing systems How fast new technology

As vice president of CNI Ventures, I was charged with looking for and understanding new technologies that might impact the newspaper industry and, more important, Central Newspapers, Inc. I gave a presentation to the Interactive Newspaper Conference in early 2000

A journalism feature from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation annual report, looking at how the foundation’s endowed Knight Chairs in Journalism had begun collaborating with each other and with other Knight journalism partners — including The Poynter

On May 25, 2008, I went back to where I started. The Journalism Department at San Francisco State University held its annual Graduation Celebration at 9 a.m. in McKenna Theatre, and I was on the program as Distinguished Journalism Alumnus,