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Biography
Robin Washington grew up in Chicago in a family
of black and Jewish civil rights activists. Participating
in sit-ins and protests when he was three years old,
today he recalls those events fondly as “family
outings.”
A nationally award-winning journalist and commentator/guest
on National Public Radio, MSNBC, Fox News, ABC News,
CNN and the BBC, Washington recently was named news
director of Minnesota’s Duluth
News Tribune, after having served as editorial
page editor since 2004. He was previously a columnist
for the Boston
Herald, authoring the newspaper’s
popular “Roads Scholar” and “Square Deal”
features, and spent two years covering the Catholic
Church clergy sexual abuse scandal, on which he still
comments for numerous newspapers. He also worked on
the Boston Herald sports staff.
Washington’s 25-year-plus print and broadcast career includes previous positions as a publisher, editor, producer and on-air reporter.
In print media, he was publisher and founder of an engineering journal, editor of a 500,000 circulation women’s magazine, publisher of a rural Minnesota weekly and managing editor of the Bay State Banner, New England’s largest black weekly. In addition to the Herald and News Tribune, his commentaries have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, the Chicago Sun-Times, the San Jose Mercury News and the St. Paul Pioneer Press, among many other newspapers.
In television, he received the 1996 Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association as creator and executive producer of You Don’t Have to Ride Jim Crow!, a national public television documentary telling the story of the first interracial Freedom Ride in 1947. He was also producer of the Emmy award-winning documentary Vermont: The Whitest State in the Union, and has produced news and public affairs for BET and Boston’s NBC and ABC affiliates.
As a radio journalist, Washington’s documentaries and news pieces have aired on National Public Radio, Crossroads, National Native News and Living On Earth.
A 1987 Fellow in Science Broadcast Journalism at WGBH-TV, Washington has received awards from the New York Radio Festival, the National Association of Black Journalists, the Minnesota Newspaper Association, the New England Press Association and the Associated Church Press. He has been profiled in publications ranging from the Jewish Forward to Emerge magazine.
Washington is married to veteran photojournalist Julia Cheng, with whom he runs Wombat Media, a film, photography and multi-media production company. He has a daughter, Erin, who is a professional dancer, dance teacher and production manager of India New England and the IndUS Business Journal.
This site includes links to selections from Robin’s work, as well as to other relevant sites, including that for his mother, artist and civil rights activist Jean Birkenstein Washington, who passed away June 28, 2003.
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