Robert H. Giles (born 1933) is a former curator of the

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. Giles graduated from

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in 1955 and received his master's degree in 1956 from the

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. He was a

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in 1966 and a

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. During his newspaper career, he served as managing editor of ''

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'', executive editor of ''The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle'', and editor and publisher of ''

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''. Under Giles' editorship, ''

'' received the

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in 1971 for coverage of the

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, and ''

'' won in 1994 for the newspaper's disclosures of a scandal in the Michigan House Fiscal Agency. He is the author of ''Newsroom Management: A Guide to Theory and Practice.'' On July 13, 1995, labor practice changes by Giles led to about 2,500 employees of ''The Detroit News'' and ''Detroit Free Press'' going on strike in the

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. The papers lost approximately US$100,000,000 (equivalent to $152,446,103 in 2017) in the first six months of the strike. He worked at The Freedom Forum prior to taking the curatorship at Nieman in 2000. He retired as curator in 2011.

References

Giles named Nieman Foundation curator
''Harvard University Gazette'', August 21, 2000.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Giles, Robert Living people Harvard University staff DePauw University alumni Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni Nieman Fellows University of Kansas faculty The Detroit News people 1933 births Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences