R. Bruce Dold

Robert Bruce Dold (March 9, 1955 – December 3, 2025) was an American Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and the publisher and editor-in-chief of the Chicago Tribune.

Early life and education Robert Bruce Dold was born in Newark, New Jersey, on March 9, 1955, to Robert Bruce Dold and Margaret (née Noll). He grew up in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. From 1973 to 1978 he attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where he received a B.S. and M.S. in Journalism.

Professional career Dold was hired as a suburban reporter by the Chicago Tribune in 1978.

In 2000, Dold was named editorial page editor. 2010 and 2011. During his tenure as editorial page editor, the paper endorsed Illinois Senator Barack Obama for president in 2008, the first time the paper had ever endorsed a Democratic presidential candidate, and also endorsed his re-election in 2012.

In February 2016, Dold was named editor of the Chicago Tribune, following former Tribune editor-in-chief Gerould Kern. He was subsequently named the paper's publisher.

Dold died at the home of one of his daughters in Winnetka, Illinois, on December 3, 2025, at the age of 70, from esophageal cancer, which he had had for four years.