Giles named to GlobalPost position

BOSTON, MA –  Bob Giles, longtime newspaper editor and former curator of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard, has joined the international news site GlobalPost as Commentary Editor. Giles will recruit contributors from around the world to bring authoritative analysis to a new GlobalPost section called Commentary. Giles has been a member of GlobalPost’s Editorial Advisory Board for the past three years.

Giles retired last summer after 11 years as curator of the Nieman Foundation, one of the pre-eminent fellowship programs for journalists in the world. He worked for nearly 40 years as a newspaper reporter and editor, most recently as editor and publisher of The Detroit News, which he joined in 1986 as executive editor. 

From 1977-1986, Giles was executive editor and then editor at the Democrat & Chronicle and Times-Union, in Rochester, N.Y. His newspaper career began in 1958 at the Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal, where he held several reporting and editing positions before becoming managing editor and then executive editor.