Robert Whitcomb

Robert Whitcomb is an American editor and writer.

Biography
Robert Whitcomb grew up in Cohasset, Mass.

He graduated from Dartmouth College, 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, 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, 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, a planned offshore wind park in Nantucket Sound, 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/