Gene Roberts (journalist) Gene Roberts (journalist) Eugene Leslie Roberts, Jr. (born June 15, 1932) is an American journalist and professor of journalism. He has been a national editor of "The New York Times", executive editor of "The Philadelphia Inquirer" from 1972 to 1990, and managing editor of "The New York Times" from 1994 to 1997. Roberts is most known for presiding over "The Inquirer"'s "Golden Age", a time in which the newspaper was given increased freedom and resources, won 17 Pulitzer Prizes in 18 years, displaced "The Philadelphia Bulletin" as the city's "paper of record", and was considered to be Knight Ridder's crown
Roy J. Harris Jr. Roy J. Harris Jr. Roy J. Harris Jr. (born October 2, 1946) is a reporter and editor who spent most of his career with "The Wall Street Journal". He writes frequently about the journalism Pulitzer Prizes, and is the author of "Pulitzer’s Gold", a book telling the back stories of 100 years of reporting that has won the United States' top journalism prize, the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. A regular contributor to the Poynter Institute's website, he does an annual preview prior to the day the Pulitzer Prizes are announced. Harris was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son