Media

... but I probably would have sent that to the graphics editor with a note that said "what do you think about this direction? How do you feel about doing something like this, only better? Is this too graphic? Do you have a better idea?"

I have never been a "designer" per se. I have been an editor who was lucky enough to work with designers willing to indulge my ideas. They would usually improve upon them or steer me to something different, once I got the conversation going. It was great because I knew the story because I would be working with the writer. And the graphics editor really knew design.

Often, a note of the kind I mentioned above would be returned with an entirely different idea that was better than mine. That was the joy of the give and take in the newsroom. I really miss that.