Robin Washington Email & Phone Number

United States

Boston Ma And Duluth Mn, (Depending On Day Of Week, Weather And Grandtwins)

Regular contributor to The Boston Globe, WGBH, the Boston Business Journal, the Marshall Project and others. Create content on transportation, tech, criminal justice and other subjects for print, web and broadcast media. Consultant on media strategy, digital newsgathering and dissemination and daily newspaper management. Also write columns and produce for NPR, BET, CNN.com, Los Angeles Times, Boston Magazine, WCVB-TV, New Hampshire Public Television, National Native News and many other media outlets.

Recent profiles: http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/bottom_line/2015/12/then-now-upscale-retailer-is-in-the-right-place.htmlHmong Village founder Yia Vang takes the concept to CaliforniaJune 3, 2016http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/print-edition/2016/06/03/hmong-village-st-paul-founder-yia-vang-california.htmlhttp://www.bizjournals.com/boston/print-edition/2015/10/02/outside-the-box-steve-rogers-is-an-old-school.htmlhttp://www.bizjournals.com/boston/print-edition/2015/05/15/womenup-colette-phillips-of-colette-phillips.htmlhttp://www.bizjournals.com/boston/print-edition/2015/04/03/emerging-leader-daquan-oliver-of-jossle-and.html?page=all

San Francisco Bay Area

Speaker, awards contest chairman, contributing columnist to "Jewish&"/myjewishlife.com. Media strategist.

Recent columns: Retire Tesla's AutopilotColumn, Aug. 2, 2016https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/columns/2016/08/02/retire-tesla-autopilot/cjLGm847WSMxOiy4VJOjoO/story.htmlHow to make all Green Line riders pay their fareEditorialJune 2, 2016http://tinyurl.com/hvx43r5No excuse for MBTA report's faulty mathColumnMay 21, 2015https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/05/21/excuse-for-mbta-report-faulty-math/0E45hlHHFfMzoHz4v4AawI/story.htmlDriverless: your next car may be your lastJan. 30, 2016https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/01/29/driverless-your-next-car-may-your-last/I0Qk6SIom95rsop797g1nN/story.html

Duluth, Minnesota Area

Editor (Jan. 2010–Feb. 2014)Led news staff of 65 for a regional daily newspaper (50,000 circulation Sundays/30,000 weekdays) and affiliated weekly, twice-weekly and monthly community newspapers. While overseeing daily operations, increased the digital staff, created an investigative unit, reassigned beats and refocused weekly publications, achieving documented growth in single-copy sales and dominance of the regional online market. Led paper to six national honors – Scripps-Howard, Society of Professional Journalists, Investigative Reporters and Editors, the Association of Health Care Journalists and the National Association of Black Journalists – the most in its 140-year history. These achievements were realized while reducing newsroom expenses by 20 percent.Promoted from News Director (2008-09) and Editorial Page Editor (2004-2008). Led editorial board and wrote weekly column. Executed editorial campaigns leading to local, statewide and federal legislation and reforms, including the repeal of an Act of Congress.

Greater Boston Area

Transportation columnist (the "Roads Scholar") for major daily newspaper in highly competitive market. Special assignment (2002-03) authoring more than 300 articles on the Catholic clergy sexual abuse scandal, including one leading directly to the lifting of the Archdiocese of Boston's confidentiality agreements, opening a floodgate of victims' stories nationwide. Promoted from Sports copy editor (1996-98).

Boston, Ma

Ran newsroom of New England’s largest black weekly. Co-directed conversion to Macintosh and QuarkXPress. Directed coverage leading to national award.

Durham, Nh

Creator of national television documentary retracing historic journey of blacks and whites who in 1947 defied Southern segregation in the first Freedom Ride. Raised six-figure budget. Brought Irene Morgan to national attention and a presidential honor as the “Grandmother of the Civil Rights Movement.” The film also led to the erection of state historic markers in North Carolina (2009) and Virginia (2012).

Certificate, Macy Fellowship In Science Broadcast Journalism

Year-long fellowship, sharing seminars with fellows from Harvard and MIT, on producing science on television and radio.

Engineering Science Curriculum, 2 Years

Education record