Blog
Howard Finberg
- By: ASNE staff
- On: 05/31/2011 16:28:00
- In: General
Organization: The Poynter Institute
Title: Director, Interactive Learning. Actually, that means that I'm responsible for Poynter's e-learning project -- News University.
Education: I received my journalism degree at San Francisco State University. I received my journalism education during the strike and campus disruptions during the late '60s around the San Francisco Bay Area.
First paying job: Campus stringer for the San Francisco Examiner; first real job, KCBS radio (overnight shift watching the wires, calling cop shops, doing clerk work); first real job: copy editor, San Francisco Examiner
Best part of your job: Helping lots of people around the world get journalism training; building new training modules
Worst part of your job: Not being able to run fast enough to accomplish all of our big ideas and dreams
Mentor or role model: Two: John Oppedahl, former editor/publisher @ Arizona Republic; Rick Cox, former VP, Arizona Republic
Favorite apps: IMDB
If I weren't an editor I'd be: A history teacher
Goal for this year: Launch our new training project called Journalism 101
To unwind I … Star Trek fest
When I am stressed I eat: Yes. When I'm stressed, I eat sweets. But my favorite foods are Indian.
Favorite book, TV show or movie: It always depends on the moment.
What music I am listening to: Lately: Leonard Cohen. Always: Van Morrison