What is the name of the editor of the Maycomb Tribune?

The editor of the Maycomb Tribune is Braxton Bragg Underwood. He is a newspaper editor in Maycomb and one of the adults who becomes important during the novel’s courtroom and aftermath scenes.

Underwood is introduced as a sharp, skeptical observer of Maycomb’s public life. Although he is not presented as conventionally religious or especially warm, his newspaper gives him a powerful position: he can shape how the town understands events and expose hypocrisy through editorials.

He becomes especially significant after Tom Robinson’s death. Underwood compares Robinson’s killing to the senseless destruction of songbirds, echoing the novel’s central moral image. Readers sometimes confuse Underwood with Atticus Finch because both defend justice in their own ways, but Atticus is the lawyer and Underwood is the newspaper editor.