Robert Whitcomb
Robert Whitcomb is an American journalist and author.
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.
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.
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.Writings
Whitcomb co-authored Cape Wind, a book about Cape Wind, a planned offshore wind park in Nantucket Sound.
