Career
Roberts grew up in North Carolina and worked for newspapers in Goldsboro, N.C.; Norfolk, Va.; Raleigh, N.C.; and Detroit. He covered the Kennedy Assassination in Dallas for the Detroit Free Press and also covered the civil rights movement as a correspondent for The New York Times, where he also served as Saigon bureau chief in 1968 during the Vietnam War. After serving as national editor at the The Times from 1969-1972, he was hired by John S. Knight to head The Inquirer. Later after his retirement from The Inquirer in 1990, he would return to the The Times from 1994 to 1998 as managing editor.
Roberts has taught journalism from 1991 to 1994 and 1998 to the present at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland.
He is on the board of directors of the Committee to Protect Journalists and served five years as its chairman; he also served as chairman of the Pulitzer Prize Board, the International Press Institute, and the Board Of Visitors of the School of Communications at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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