Gene Roberts (journalist) in 1954 and was later a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. 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
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing Editorial Cartooning from 1922. Finalists have been announced from 1980, ordinarily two others beside the winner. One person ordinarily wins the award for work with one newspaper or with affiliated papers, and that was true without exception between 1936 (the only time two prizes were given) and 1977. In the early years, several newspapers were recognized without naming any writer, and that has occasionally happened recently. Several times from 1977, two or three people have shared the award for their work with one paper. In its first 97 years to 2013, the Editorial Writing Pulitzer was awarded 89 times. In