Gene Roberts (journalist)

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Gene Roberts is an American journalist and instructor in journalism. Roberts was executive editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer from 1973 to 1991 and managing editor of The New York Times from 1994 to 1997.

Roberts has taught journalism from 1991 to 1994 and 1998 to the present at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland.

He is on the board of directors of the Committee to Protect Journalists.

[edit] Awards

Roberts received the National Press Club's Fourth Estate Award for Distinguished Contributions to Journalism in 1993.

[edit] Bibliography

• Roberts, Gene; and Klibanoff, Hank. The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation. New York: Knopf, 2006. ISBN 0679403817 ISBN 978-0679403814