Bob Giles
Giles was curator of Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism from 2000 until 2011. He came to Harvard after a newspaper career of nearly 40 years that included editorships at The Detroit News, Times-Union and Democrat & Chronicle in Rochester, NY, and the Beacon Journal where he won a Nieman Fellowship in 1965. By May 1970, he had become the managing editor at the Beacon Journal in Akron, Ohio and in charge of covering the tragedy at Kent State. His paper won a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of the events. Before coming to Harvard, Giles was a senior vice president of the Freedom Forum and executive director of its Media Studies Center in New York City. He wanted the world to know of the Akron Beacon Journal’s truthful narrative in reporting the campus shootings at Kent State on May 4, 1970, which led to his book, When Truth Mattered: The Kent State Shootings 50 Years Later. Please visit him at https://www.whentruthmattered.net.
