Robert Niles

Robert Niles is the founder and editor of ThemeParkInsider.com, an online consumers' guide to the world's leading theme and amusement parks, read by more than 300,000 people each month. It has been named the top theme park site on the Internet by Forbes and Travel + Leisure magazines, has been a Webby Award finalist, and is a winner of the prestigious Online Journalism Award, presented by the Online News Association and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Robert worked at Walt Disney...See more

Robert Niles is the founder and editor of ThemeParkInsider.com, an online consumers' guide to the world's leading theme and amusement parks, read by more than 300,000 people each month. It has been named the top theme park site on the Internet by Forbes and Travel + Leisure magazines, has been a Webby Award finalist, and is a winner of the prestigious Online Journalism Award, presented by the Online News Association and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Robert worked at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom for five summers between 1987 and 1991, as well as for a full year between graduating Northwestern University and beginning graduate school in journalism at another university. In the years since leaving Disney, Robert's worked as a reporter, editorial writer, columnist, and website editor for several newspapers, including The [Bloomington, Indiana] Herald-Times, the Omaha [Nebraska] World-Herald, the [Denver] Rocky Mountain News and the Los Angeles Times. He now writes a weekly column about theme parks for the Orange County Register, in addition to running ThemeParkInsider.com. See less