Carla Robbins

Summary

Carla Anne Robbins is an American journalist, national security expert,[1] and the former deputy editorial page editor of The New York Times. Prior to her career at The New York Times, Robbins worked for BusinessWeek, U.S. News & World Report, and The Wall Street Journal. During her thirteen-year career at The Wall Street Journal, she won multiple awards[1] and was a member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting teams. She is now a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations where she co-hosts the weekly podcast The World Next Week and faculty director of the MIA program at Baruch College's Marxe School of Public and International Affairs.

Carla Robbins
Born
Carla Anne Robbins

1953
NationalityAmerican
EducationWellesley College (BA, 1974)
University of California, Berkeley (MA, PhD)
OccupationJournalist
Employer(s)BusinessWeek (1982–?)
U.S. News & World Report (1986–1992)
The Wall Street Journal (1993–2005)
The New York Times (2006–2012)
AwardsPulitzer Prize for International Reporting (1999, shared)
Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting (2000, shared)

Career edit

Robbins graduated from Wellesley College in 1974, with a bachelor's degree in political science. She subsequently attended University of California, Berkeley, receiving master and doctorate degrees in political science.[2]

In 1982, Robbins worked as an editor and, later, as a State Department reporter for BusinessWeek. In 1986, she began working as the Latin America bureau chief for U.S. News & World Report, where she later became a senior diplomatic correspondent. In 1993 she began working as a reporter and news editor at The Wall Street Journal, going on to be their lead writer on foreign policy.[2] In July 2006, she joined the editorial board of The New York Times. In January 2007, she became the deputy editorial page editor.[3] In July 2012, Robbins left The New York Times. She is now the faculty director of the Master in International Affairs program and a Clinical Professor of National Security Studies at the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs Baruch College.[4][5] She is also a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.[6]

A foreign policy commentator, she is considered an expert on national security and defense issues, with a particular focus on nonproliferation, Iran and North Korea, American politics and foreign policy, Washington’s budget battles, defense spending, and US military rivalries and interventions.[1]

Awards edit

In 1984, while working at BusinessWeek, Robbins was one of the recipients of an Overseas Press Club award.[2] In 1990, she received a Nieman Fellowship from Harvard University.[7] In 2004, she shared the Elizabeth Neuffer Award for Print Journalism from the U.N. Correspondents Association and the Peter R. Weitz Senior Prize from the German Marshall Fund .[2] In 2005, she was a Hoover Media Fellow at Stanford University.[8]

Robbins has been a member of two teams that have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize. In 1999, she and a team of reporters at The Wall Street Journal won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for their coverage of the 1998 Russian financial crisis. The following year, she was a member of a team who were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for stories examining U.S. defense spending and military decisions following the Cold War.[2]

In 2003, she was awarded the Georgetown University Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting.[2]

Notes edit

  1. ^ a b c "Austin W. Marxe School Of Public And International Affairs: Faculty bios". Marxe School at Baruch. Baruch College / Austin W. Marxe School Of Public And International Affairs. 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Carla A. Robbins, Deputy Editor of The New York Times". Wellesley College. Archived from the original on 2009-08-27.
  3. ^ "Carla Anne Robbins". The Aspen Institute. Archived from the original on 2012-01-19.
  4. ^ "Carla Robbins - School of Public Affairs - Baruch College | CUNY". www.baruch.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2018-02-25.
  5. ^ "School of Public Affairs - Baruch College | CUNY". www.baruch.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2018-02-25.
  6. ^ "Carla Anne Robbins". Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved 2018-02-25.
  7. ^ "Alumni Fellows". Harvard University.
  8. ^ "William and Barbara Edwards Media Fellows by year". Stanford University. Archived from the original on 2014-05-20.

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