Newbold Noyes, Jr. (August 10, 1918 - December 18, 1997) was an American publisher, journalist and newspaper editor.
Noyes went from war correspondent in the 1940s to editor in the 1960s. After graduating from Yale University in 1941, Mr. Noyes joined The Washington Evening Star as a reporter, then served as an ambulance driver in the American Field Service from 1942 to 1944. He rejoined The Star as a foreign correspondent covering American troops in Italy, filing dispatches on the invasion of southern France and the Allied advance into Germany. Noyes was editor of The Star from 1963 to 1975. He also served as president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors from 1970 to 1971, as a director of The Associated Press, and as a member of the Pulitzer Prize advisory board.[1] A longtime resident of Sorrento, Maine, he was married to Beatrice "Beppie" Noyes (born July 20, 1919- died July 3, 2007) an American author and illustrator.[2]
The Noyes family co-owned The Washington Evening Star from 1867 to 1975. Mr. Noyes's great-grandfather, Crosby S. Noyes, joined The Star as a reporter soon after its founding in 1852 and bought a one-third interest in the paper. His grandfather Frank Brett Noyes served as president of The Star and was one of the founders of The Associated Press. His father Newbold Noyes, Sr. served as associate editor of the paper. In 1975, control of The Star's parent company was sold to Joe L. Allbritton, a Houston businessman. Allbritton in turn sold the paper in 1978 to Time Inc., which closed it in 1981.[3]