Floyd Phillips Gibbons (1887 – September 1939) was the war correspondent for the Chicago Tribune during World War I. One of radio's first news reporters and commentators, he was famous for a fast-talking delivery style. Floyd Gibbons lived a life of danger of which he often wrote and spoke. Gibbons started with the Tribune in 1907. He became well known for covering the Pancho Villa Expedition in 1916, and for reporting on the 1917 torpedoing of the British ship Laconia, on which he was a passenger. Gibbons died of a heart attack in September 1939 at his farm in Pennsylvania.