Chester Burger, a native New Yorker, has spent many years walking and photographing the streets of New York. Seven thousand of his stereoscopic photos of the city are in the permanent collection of The New-York Historical Society. Another 14,000 of his photographs, made around the world, are included in the permanent collection of the New York Public Library.

He retired in 1988 from Chester Burger & Co., Inc., the nation’s first communications management consulting firm. In 1995, the U. S. Government awarded him the Medal for Outstanding Service to the United States. Burger began his working career at the Columbia Broadcasting System in 1941 as a Page Boy, and left in 1955 as National Manager of CBS Television News.

During World War II, he served in the U. S. Army Air Corps. After V-J Day, the Army assigned him to experiment with newly-developed television. He returned to CBS as a visualizer, and developed methods for reporting world news on TV news broadcasts then beginning. In April 1946, he became the nation’s first television news reporter. He was first president of the Radio-Newsreel-Television Working Press Association of New York.

Burger currently serves as an advisor to the Secretary of the Air Force Office of Public Affairs. He was a member of the Board of Directors of Union Theological Seminary. For more than 20 years, he served as a Public Arbitrator in the securities industry, and for the American Arbitration Association. In the Association for Intelligence Officers New York Chapter, he is a Vice President.

He is the author of six books on management subjects, including The Chief Executive. His lifetime papers are in The Center for American History at the University of Texas in Austin.