Carla Robbins
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.
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| Born | Carla Anne Robbins 1953 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Wellesley College (BA, 1974) University of California, Berkeley (MA, PhD) |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Employer(s) | BusinessWeek (1982–?) U.S. News & World Report (1986–1992) The Wall Street Journal (1993–2005) The New York Times (2006–2012) |
| Awards | Pulitzer 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
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c d e f . Wellesley College. Archived from the original on 2009-08-27.
- ^ . The Aspen Institute. Archived from the original on 2012-01-19.
- ^ "Carla Robbins - School of Public Affairs - Baruch College | CUNY". www.baruch.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2018-02-25.
- ^ "School of Public Affairs - Baruch College | CUNY". www.baruch.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2018-02-25.
- ^ "Carla Anne Robbins". Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved 2018-02-25.
- ^ "Alumni Fellows". Harvard University.
- ^ . Stanford University. Archived from the original on 2014-05-20.
External links edit
- Appearances on C-SPAN