Gene Roberts (journalist)
| Gene Roberts | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Eugene Leslie Roberts, Jr. June 15, 1932 Pikeville, North Carolina, USA |
| Occupation | Journalist, professor of journalism |
| Notable credit(s) | The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer; books: The Race Beat (with Hank Klibanoff), The Censors and the Schools (with Jack Nelson), Assignment America (with David Jones), Leaving Readers Behind (with Thomas Kunkel and Charles Layton), Breach of Faith (with Thomas Kunkel) |
| Title | Professor of Journalism, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland |
| Spouse(s) | Susan McLamb Roberts |
| Children | Leslie Roberts, Maggie Roberts, Elizabeth Roberts, Polly Roberts |
| Relatives | sister, Peggy Ellis; grandchildren, Emma Roberts Zevin; Wiley Roberts Guillot |
Eugene Leslie "Gene" Roberts, Jr. (born June 15, 1932) is an American journalist and professor of journalism. He has been a national editor of The New York Times, executive editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer from 1972 to 1990, and managing editor of The New York Times from 1994 to 1997. Roberts is most known for presiding over The Inquirer`s "Golden Age", a time in which the newspaper was given the freedom and resources it needed, won 17 Pulitzer Prizes in 18 years, displaced The Philadelphia Bulletin as the city's "paper of record", and was considered to be Knight Ridder's crown jewel as a profitable enterprise and an influential regional paper.
Roberts was born in Pikeville in the Goldsboro, North Carolina Metropolitan Area. He grew up in North Carolina and worked for newspapers in Goldsboro, N.C.; Norfolk, Va.; Raleigh, N.C.; and Detroit. He covered the Kennedy Assassination in Dallas for the Detroit Free Press and subsequently covered the Civil Rights Movement as a correspondent for The New York Times, where he also served as Saigon bureau chief in 1968 during the Vietnam War. After serving as national editor at The Times from 1969 to 1972, he was hired by John S. Knight to head The Inquirer. He retired in 1990 and returned to the Times as managing editor from 1994 to 1998.
Roberts taught journalism from 1991 to 1994 and from 1998 to 2010 at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland.
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