Robert Hartmann Giles (June 6, 1933 – August 7, 2023) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
Giles was a Nieman Fellow in 1966 and a Gannett Professional-in-Residence at the William Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas.
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 was the author of Newsroom Management: A Guide to Theory and Practice" and "When Truth Mattered: The Kent State Shootings 50 Years Later.
Robert Giles died from complications of metastatic melanoma at a hospice facility in Traverse City, Michigan, on August 7, 2023.