Robert Whitcomb is an American editor and writer.

Biography

Robert Whitcomb grew up in Cohasset, Mass. He graduated from

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College ( ) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the America ...

, in 1970, with a BA in history and as a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and he received an MS in journalism from

Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

, in 1972. In the summer of 1969 he worked at ''The Boston Record American'', a tabloid. He moved to '' The Boston Herald Traveler'' in 1970 for a full-time job as a writer and reporter. Whitcomb was an editor at The Wall Street Journal and at the

International Herald Tribune The ''International Herald Tribune'' (''IHT'') was a daily English-language newspaper published in Paris, France, for international English-speaking readers. It published under the name ''International Herald Tribune'' starting in 1967, but its ...

, where he was the finance editor, and then vice president and editorial page editor of the Providence Journal. He was also the member secretary of the Aga Khan University Media Thinking Group, which helped found a media school based in Nairobi. He twice won the Associated Press prize for best New England editorials. He has served on various nonprofit boards, including the American Library in Paris, the Providence Public Library, the Public's Radio and the local chapter of the ALS Association. He is acting board chairman (as of late 2023) of the American Agora Foundation, publisher of Lapham's Quarterly. https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/outreach He's editor of newenglanddiary.com, a weekly columnist for GoLocal24.com and chairman of The Boston Guardian, that city's largest weekly. He has written many articles for national magazines. See: https://newenglanddiary.com/ and: https://www.golocalprov.com/ and: https://read.thebostonguardian.com/the-boston-guardian

Writings

Whitcomb co-authored ''Cape Wind'', an environmental and social-comedy book about

Cape Wind The Cape Wind Project was a proposed offshore wind energy project on Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound off Cape Cod, Massachusetts. It was projected to generate 1,500 gigawatt hours of electricity a year at a first-dollar cost of $2.6 bil ...

, a planned offshore wind park in

Nantucket Sound Nantucket Sound_(geography), Sound is a roughly triangular area of the Atlantic Ocean offshore from the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It is long and wide, and is enclosed by Cape Cod on the north, Nantucket on the south, and Martha's Vineyar ...

, and has edited and written parts of many other books, including fiction and nonfiction, and edited scripts for several documentary films. He was a partner in the hospital consultancy Cambridge Management Group. He is married to the painter Nancy Spears, with whom he has two adult daughters. http://nancyspearswhitcomb.com/

References

External links

Newen Gland Diary
Retrieved 13 March 2018 * https://newenglanddiary.com/ * Globalist
The Globalist
(December 3, 2007), "Robert Whitcomb, Editorial Page Editor, Providence Journal." * Glimpse Foundation
Glimpse Foundation
(December 3, 2007), "Robert Whitcomb." Retrieved 13 March 2018.
Bob Whitcomb's education
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