Under Giles ' editorship , '' The Akron Beacon Journal '' received the Pulitzer Prize in 1971 for coverage of the Kent State shootings , and '' The Detroit News '' won in 1994 for the newspaper 's disclosures of a scandal in the Michigan House Fiscal Agency . He is the author of '' Newsroom Management : A Guide to Theory and Practice . '' On July 13 , 1995 , labor practice changes by Giles led to about 2,500 employees of '' The Detroit News '' and '' Detroit Free Press '' going on strike in the Detroit newspaper strike of 1995 – 97 . The papers lost approximately US$ 100,000,000 ( equivalent to $ 152,446,103 in 2017 ) in the first six months of the strike . He worked at The Freedom Forum prior to taking the curatorship at Nieman in 2000 . He retired as curator in 2011
Kent State shootings
Kent State shootings
Robert Giles