In fifth grade,
he started his
school’s
first
newspaper.
His father, a TV
executive, once
said:
“Newspaper
people are
losers.”
While a student at
Eastern Michigan
University, he
wrote a phony
news story:
“The
Ghost of Pease
Auditorium.”
To this day, EMU
students still
believe that
the building is
haunted.
In 1987, he
introduced
summary decks
at The Oregonian.
Since then,
they’ve
become standard
design elements
at newspapers
around the world.
He’s been an
award-winning
editor, designer
and columnist at
such newspapers as
the Times-
Union (Rochester, N.Y.)
and
The Oregonian (Portland, Ore.).
He now consults on
redesigns,
lectures on
journalism, and
maintains a
dog-and-frog ranch
deep in the Oregon
woods.
• As a
designer, he
trans-
formed The Oregonian into one
of the
best-designed newspapers
in the world
(according to The
Society of News
Design).
• As an editor, he’s won numerous
national awards -- including the
1996
Penney-Missouri award for helping to turn The Oregonian’s
Living section
into the most innovative feature section in America.
attention for its
ground-breaking mix of text, graphics and humor.
• As a lecturer, he’s spoken to
thousands of professionals,
teachers and
students at seminars around the country, and taught
writing courses as
adjunct professor at Portland State University.
