Background
Roberts, Gene was born in 1932 in Goldsboro, North Carolina, United States.
(An unprecedented examination of how news stories, editori...)
An unprecedented examination of how news stories, editorials and photographs in the American press—and the journalists responsible for them—profoundly changed the nation’s thinking about civil rights in the South during the 1950s and ‘60s. Roberts and Klibanoff draw on private correspondence, notes from secret meetings, unpublished articles, and interviews to show how a dedicated cadre of newsmen—black and white—revealed to a nation its most shameful shortcomings that compelled its citizens to act. Meticulously researched and vividly rendered, The Race Beat is an extraordinary account of one of the most calamitous periods in our nation’s history, as told by those who covered it.
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Roberts, Gene was born in 1932 in Goldsboro, North Carolina, United States.
Associate of Arts, Mars Hill College, North Carolina. Bachelor in Journalism, University North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1954.
Reporter, editor Detroit Free Press, The Raleigh, North Carolina, News & Observer, Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, Goldsboro News-Argus. Various positions including chief Southern & civil rights correspondent, chief South Vietnam war correspondent & national editor New York Times, 1965—1972, managing editor New York City, 1994—1997. Executive editor Philadelphia Inquirer, 1972—1990.
Professor journalism Philip Merrill College Journalism, University Maryland, College Park, 1991—1994, since 1998. Board directors, past chairman Committee to Protect Journalists. Past chairman Pulitzer Prize Board, International Press Institute.
(An unprecedented examination of how news stories, editori...)
Married Susan McLamb. Children: Leslie, Maggie, Elizabeth, Polly.