Our speaker this morning, Robert Giles, author of the book “When Truth Mattered” The Kent State shootings 50 years later. 
Mr. Giles began his career as a reporter at the Akron Beacon Journal in Ohio and later became the managing editor. He was selected for the Nieman Fellowship at Harvard and later became curator, which is something like a dean. While executive editor and then editor at the Democrat & Chronicle and The Times Union in Rochester N.Y. he wrote a textbook called Newsroom Management and in 1986, he became the editor and publisher of The Detroit News.
 
He is a past president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and of the Associated Press Managing Editors and past president of the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism. Mr. Giles was the managing Editor of the Akron Beacon Journal who directed the newspapers Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage during the May 4th Kent State killings of four students. His book, “When Truth Mattered” is the compelling story of how a local newspaper reported on the shootings and the aftermath, creating a truthful narrative and first-person account of the deadly confrontation.