Helen Rogers Reid

Helen Rogers Reid (November 23, 1882 – July 27, 1970) was an American newspaper publisher. She was president of the New York Herald Tribune.

Helen Miles Rogers was born in Appleton, Wisconsin, the daughter of Benjamin Talbot Rogers, a storekeeper, and his wife Sarah Louise Johnson. She graduated with an A.B. from Barnard College in 1903. She became social secretary for Whitelaw Reid and married his son, Ogden, in 1911. After her father-in-law died her husband brought her in to assist in running the New-York Tribune. Instrumental in merging the New-York Tribune with the New York Herald, she took over as president on the death of her husband in 1947. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1950. Reid is the mother of Whitelaw Reid (journalist) and Ogden R. Reid. She died in New York.

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