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Size | 1.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 150 items) |
Abstract | The Gene Roberts Papers, 1990-2012, chiefly document the late stages of Roberts' journalism career. Included are letters sent upon his retirement as managing editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer; other correspondence with colleagues, some with regard to his winning the Pulitzer Prize for History for The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation (2006); eulogies; biographical materials; speeches; a photographic scrapbook of the Fourth Estate Award celebration; a copy of the Diane Rehm Show; a videorecording of anecdotes about Roberts; and a videorecording of a story told by his mother, Margaret Roberts. |
Creator | Roberts, Gene. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Nancy Kaiser and Lydia Neuroth, November 2017
Encoded by: Nancy Kaiser, November 2017
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Eugene L. Roberts (1932-) grew up in North Carolina and graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1954 with a B.A. in journalism. His career as a journalist included stints as a reporter in Goldsboro, N.C., and Detroit, Mich., before covering the Civil Rights movement and serving as Saigon bureau chief for the New York Times. In 1972, he became managing editor for the Philadelphia Inquirer. During his eighteen-year tenure the paper regularly won Pulitzer Prizes. Roberts retired in 1990, taught journalism for several years, and then returned to the New York Times as managing editor from 1994 to 1998. In 1993, the National Press Club honored Roberts with its Fourth Estate Award for Distinguished Service to Journalism. In 2006, he co-authored with Hank Klibanoff The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation, which was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for History in 2007.
Back to TopThe Gene Roberts Papers, 1990-2012, chiefly document the late stages of Roberts' journalism career. Included are four volumes of letters sent upon his retirement as managing editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer; other correspondence with colleagues, some with regard to his winning the Pulitzer Prize for History for The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation (2006); eulogies; biographical materials, including newspaper clippings and magazine articles; speeches on the South, academic and intellectual freedom, shrinking news coverage, and media and the Civil Rights Movement; a photographic scrapbook of the Fourth Estate Award celebration; a copy of the Diane Rehm Show featuring Roberts and The Race Beat; a videorecording of anecdotes about Roberts, who was nicknamed "the Frog"; and a videorecording of a story told by his mother, Margaret Roberts.
Back to TopBox 1 |
Retirement correspondence, 1990 |
Box 2 |
Retirement correspondence, 1990 |
"46 Frogs: Confessions of a Media Scamp" by James M. Naughton, unpublished memoir, n.d. |
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Box 3 |
Correspondence, 1993-2007Includes several eulogies. |
Biographical material |
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Clippings |
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Pulitzer Prize, 2007 |
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Speeches |
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Fourth Estate Award |
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Oversize Image Folder OP-PF-5759/1 |
Gene Roberts and colleaguesColor photographic print |
Audiocassette C-5759/1 |
"The Race Beat," Diane Rehm Show, 18 January 2007 |
Videotape VT-5759/1 |
"Vive le Frog"Anecdotes on this recording may be included 46 Frogs by James Naughton. |
Videotape VT-5759/2 |
"The Story of Mr. Man and the Bear, Told by Margaret Roberts, Two Tellings" |