Robert Giles
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Robert Hartmann Giles (June 6, 1933 – August 7, 2023) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
Early life and education
Giles graduated from DePauw University in 1955 and received his master's degree in 1956 from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Career
Giles was a
The Akron Beacon Journal, executive editor of The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, and editor and publisher of The Detroit News
.
Under Giles' editorship, Detroit newspaper strike of 1995–97. The papers lost approximately US$100,000,000 (equivalent to $152,446,103 in 2017) in the first six months of the strike.
Giles worked at
The Freedom Forum
prior to taking the curatorship at Nieman in 2000. He retired as curator in 2011.
Death
Robert Giles died from complications of metastatic melanoma at a hospice facility in Traverse City, Michigan, on August 7, 2023. He was 90.[1]
References
- ^ "Robert H. Giles, Newspaper Editor and Nieman Curator, Dies at 90". The New York Times. 16 August 2023. Retrieved 28 August 2023.
- Giles named Nieman Foundation curator Harvard University Gazette, August 21, 2000.
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