Robert Bogle
Newspaper chief executive Robert Bogle was born to John Bogle, a vice president and advertising director at The Philadelphia Tribune, and Roslyn Woods Bogle, an advocate and activist throughout the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area. In 1973, he graduated from Cheyney State College with his B.A. degree in urban studies and attended the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and Finance to study marketing and economics.
Bogle was first hired at The Philadelphia Tribune in 1970, and was named advertising director in 1973. He served in that position until 1977, when he became director of marketing. From 1981 to 1989, Bogle worked as executive vice president and treasurer for the Tribune and was then promoted to president and chief executive officer. In 1991, Bogle was appointed president of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), where he served two terms. Among his achievements as president of the NNPA were the dedication of the new national headquarters in Washington, D.C., the introduction of the NNPA’s national wire service, and the establishment of new and enhanced relationships with major national advertisers, including Toys R Us, Procter & Gamble, U.S. Air, K-Mart, and Walt Disney World Company.
Bogle has served on the boards of U.S. Airways Group, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association, United Way of America, the Zoological Society of Philadelphia, the Workforce Investment Board, and the African American Chamber of Commerce. In addition, in 2009, Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter appointed Bogle to the Independence Blue Cross board of directors.
Bogle is chairman of the Hospitals and Higher Education Facilities Authority of Philadelphia and serves as a commissioner of the Delaware River Port Authority. He has served as chairman of the council of trustees of Cheyney University and is an advisor to the United Negro College Fund, a member of the executive committee of the Boy Scouts of America, and a life member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity. He is also a founding member and president of the African American News and Information Consortium, a group of premier Black newspapers in some of the largest markets in the United States of America.
In 1993, Bogle was named one of Ebony magazine’s 100 most influential black Americans. In 1995, 1997 and 1999, the NNPA honored Bogle with the Russwurm Award, the highest honor to the “Best Newspaper in America.” Bogle received an honorary doctorate of humane letters degree from Drexel University in 2000.
Robert Bogle was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on June 11, 2014.
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Newspaper publishing chief executive Robert Bogle ( - ) is the president and chief executive officer of The Philadelphia Tribune. He also served as president of the National Newspaper Publishers Association from 1991 to 1995.
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<a href="https://da.thehistorymakers.org/story/168398">Tape: 1 Story: 1 - Slating of Robert Bogle's interview</a>
<a href="https://da.thehistorymakers.org/story/168399">Tape: 1 Story: 2 - Robert Bogle lists his favorites</a>
<a href="https://da.thehistorymakers.org/story/168400">Tape: 1 Story: 3 - Robert Bogle talks about his mother's family background</a>
<a href="https://da.thehistorymakers.org/story/168401">Tape: 1 Story: 4 - Robert Bogle talks about his mother</a>
<a href="https://da.thehistorymakers.org/story/168402">Tape: 1 Story: 5 - Robert Bogle talks about his maternal grandfather</a>
<a href="https://da.thehistorymakers.org/story/168403">Tape: 1 Story: 6 - Robert Bogle talks about his mother's academic abilities</a>
<a href="https://da.thehistorymakers.org/story/168404">Tape: 1 Story: 7 - Robert Bogle talks about his father and his parents' views of race and character</a>
<a href="https://da.thehistorymakers.org/story/168405">Tape: 1 Story: 8 - Robert Bogle talks about how his parents met, his likeness to them and lessons from his mother</a>
<a href="https://da.thehistorymakers.org/story/168406">Tape: 1 Story: 9 - Robert Bogle describes his siblings</a>
<a href="https://da.thehistorymakers.org/story/168407">Tape: 2 Story: 1 - Robert Bogle talks about his brother, HistoryMaker Donald Bogle, pt. 1</a>
<a href="https://da.thehistorymakers.org/story/168408">Tape: 2 Story: 2 - Robert Bogle talks about his brother, HistoryMaker Donald Bogle, pt. 2</a>
<a href="https://da.thehistorymakers.org/story/168409">Tape: 2 Story: 3 - Robert Bogle talks about his siblings</a>
<a href="https://da.thehistorymakers.org/story/168410">Tape: 2 Story: 4 - Robert Bogle talks about his earliest childhood memories</a>
<a href="https://da.thehistorymakers.org/story/168411">Tape: 2 Story: 5 - Robert Bogle talks about growing up in Darby, Pennsylvania where he attended integrated schools</a>
<a href="https://da.thehistorymakers.org/story/168412">Tape: 2 Story: 6 - Robert Bogle talks about the lessons he learned from his father</a>
<a href="https://da.thehistorymakers.org/story/168413">Tape: 2 Story: 7 - Robert Bogle talks about his religious upbringing</a>
<a href="https://da.thehistorymakers.org/story/168414">Tape: 2 Story: 8 - Robert Bogle states his elementary school and recalls his elementary school teachers</a>
<a href="https://da.thehistorymakers.org/story/168415">Tape: 2 Story: 9 - Robert Bogle talks about meeting influential African Americans as a child</a>
<a href="https://da.thehistorymakers.org/story/168416">Tape: 2 Story: 10 - Robert Bogle talks about growing up knowing that he would have to choose between education, work, and the military after high school</a>
<a href="https://da.thehistorymakers.org/story/168417">Tape: 3 Story: 1 - Robert Bogle talks about South Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and black-owned theaters across the country</a>
<a href="https://da.thehistorymakers.org/story/168418">Tape: 3 Story: 2 - Robert Bogle claims Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as the birthplace of the black community</a>
<a href="https://da.thehistorymakers.org/story/168419">Tape: 3 Story: 3 - Robert Bogle talks about working as a newsboy, his educational experience, and moving to Yeadon, Pennsylvania</a>
<a href="https://da.thehistorymakers.org/story/168420">Tape: 3 Story: 4 - Robert Bogle talks about attending Yeadon High School in Yeadon, Pennsylvania</a>
<a href="https://da.thehistorymakers.org/story/168421">Tape: 3 Story: 5 - Robert Bogle talks about attending Cheyney State College in Cheyney, Pennsylvania</a>
<a href="https://da.thehistorymakers.org/story/168422">Tape: 3 Story: 6 - Robert Bogle lists his instructors at Cheyney State College in Cheyney, Pennsylvania</a>
<a href="https://da.thehistorymakers.org/story/168423">Tape: 3 Story: 7 - Robert Bogle talks about how he came to work at the Philadelphia Tribune</a>
<a href="https://da.thehistorymakers.org/story/168424">Tape: 3 Story: 8 - Robert Bogle talks about his studies at Cheyney State College in Cheyney, Pennsylvania and working at the Philadelphia Tribune</a>
<a href="https://da.thehistorymakers.org/story/168425">Tape: 3 Story: 9 - Robert Bogle talks about participating in the student union at Cheyney University of Pennsylvania in Cheyney, Pennsylvania</a>