Robert Whitcomb

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Robert Whitcomb is an American journalist and author.[1]

Biography[]

Whitcomb in the summer of 1969 worked with The Boston Record American, a tabloid. He moved to The Boston Herald Traveller in 1970 for a full-time job. He worked at The Wall Street Journal and the International Herald Tribune before becoming the editorial page editor of The Providence Journal, a position he held until 2013.[2]

He left Dartmouth College in 1970 with a BA in History, before graduating MS in journalism at Columbia University two years later. From New York he went to Wilmington, Delaware News Journal for a short time before moving on to the Wall Street Journal. From 1997, he was vice-president of Providence Journal.[3]

As a young journalist Whitcomb was business editor at the Wall Street Journal, the International Herald Tribune, and then editor of the Providence Journal.

Whitcomb retired as editorial page editor in 2013, but continued writing a column.[4]

Writings[]

Whitcomb co-authored Cape Wind, a book about Cape Wind, a planned offshore wind park in Nantucket Sound.[5][6][7][8]

References[]

  1. ^ Sullivan, Robert (17 June 2017). "Air Power (book review)". New York Times. ProQuest 217317190.
  2. ^ Freeman, James P. (1 March 2017). "Will Newspapers Go the Way of the Sailboat?". Retrieved 2018-03-14.
  3. ^ "Robert Whitcomb". Retrieved 2018-03-13.
  4. ^ Freeman, James P. (1 March 2017). "Will Newspapers Go the Way of the Sailboat?". New Boston Post. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
  5. ^ "review of Cape Wind: Money, Celebrity, Class, Politics, and the Battle for America's Energy Future on Nantucket Sound". Bostonist. 29 May 2007. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  6. ^ Grimes, William (25 May 2007). "Gone With the Windmill Farms, Or, a Cape Cod Cautionary Tale (book review)". New York Times. ProQuest 433583492.
  7. ^ Williams, Bill (10 June 2007). "Tilting at Windmills (book review)". Hartford Courant. ProQuest 257082460.
  8. ^ Beam, Alex (4 April 2007). "Dirty politics,clean power on the Cape (book review)". Boston Globe. ProQuest 405068048.

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