Bob Giles

Bob Giles became the curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard in 2000 after nearly forty years in newspapers. Previously, he had been editor and publisher of the Detroit News. From 1977 to 1986, Giles was executive editor and then editor of the Rochester, N.Y.,Democrat and Chronicle and the Rochester Times-Union. His career began in 1958 at the Akron Beacon Journal. As managing editor in 1970, he directed coverage of the campus shootings at Kent State University, for which the newspaper won the Pulitzer Prize. Giles was a 1966 Nieman Fellow and received an honorary doctorate in journalism from DePauw University in 1996. He retired from the Nieman Foundation in 2011.