Gene Roberts is a journalism professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. He was a reporter with the "Goldsboro News-Argus" and "The Virginian-Pilot," and a reporter and editor with "The News & Observer" and the "Detroit Free Press" before joining "The New York Times" in 1965, where until 1972 he served as chief southern and civil rights correspondent, chief war correspondent in South Vietnam, and national editor. During his eighteen years as executive editor of "The Philadelphia Inquirer," his staff won seventeen Pulitzer Prizes. He later became the managing editor of the "The N
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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. ... SEE MORE