Trivia

Robinson began his journalism career at the San Francisco Chronicle, where he was one of two reporters assigned to cover the trial of kidnapped newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst.

His wife, Avis Robinson, is the President and CEO of Washington Metropolitan Scholars, a non-profit organization which provides scholarships to support and enable African American high school students to enter and successfully complete their undergraduate education.

He and his family live in Arlington, Virginia.

He is a regular commentator on Meet the Press (1992), Hardball with Chris Matthews (1994), The Rachel Maddow Show (2008), The Ed Show (2009), and other media outlets.

Robinson is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists and a Board Member at the International Women's Media Foundation. In 2010, he was elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board.

Robinson earned the Pulitzer Prize in 2009, for Commentary for his columns about the 2008 presidential campaign and the election of President Barack Obama. He has received numerous journalism awards.

In 1999, Robinson became an Assistant Managing Editor of The Washington Post, in charge of the Style section.

In 1994, Robinson was named The Washington Post's foreign editor and was elected to the Council on Foreign Relations.

From 1988 to 1992, he was named The Washington Post's South America correspondent, based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. For the subsequent two years, he was the London bureau chief.

Robinson speaks Spanish and Portuguese.

During the 1987-1988 academic year, on leave from The Washington Post, Robinson was a Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard University.

Robinson joined The Washington Post in 1980 as a City Hall reporter. In 1984 he was promoted to city editor.

Robinson graduated from Orangeburg High School, where he was one of a handful of black students on the previously all-white campus. He attended the University of Michigan, where during his senior year he was the first black student to be named co-editor-in-chief of the award-winning student newspaper, The Michigan Daily.

Robinson launched a twice-weekly column on The Washington Post's op-ed page in 2005. Within a year, it was syndicated to more than 130 newspapers, making it the fastest-growing column in the history of the Washington Post Writers Group.