Richard Curtis, a founding editor of USA Today, is the newspaper's managing editor of graphics and photography. A graduate of the School of Design at North Carolina State University, Curtis returned there in 1992 as the Hearst Visiting Professional in graphics and design. In 1978, he co-founded the Society of Newspaper Design, where he also served as a past president. He founded, and was for several years the editor, of the SPD's quarterly journal Design as well. He has lectured throughout the United States and Europe and co-founded the Freedom Forum's flying short course in photojournalism in Eastern Europe. As an independent publications design consultant, he has won numerous gold and silver medals and awards of excellence from the Society of Newspaper Design, the Society of Publication Designers, and Print magazine's annual regional design contest. His work has twice received the American Journalism Review's award for best-designed newspaper. He is co-editor of Portraits of the USA; editor and designer of USA Today's Weather Book and The USA Today Weather Almanac; and designer and editor of the Freedom Forum's 1994 book Death by Cheeseburger: High School journalism in the 1990s and Beyond. His work has been noted in several books, most recently Richard Saul Wurman's Information Architects.