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Robert Jacob Samuelson (born December 23, 1945) was a conservative journalist for The Washington Post , where he wrote about business and economic issues from 1977 to 2020. He was a columnist for Newsweek magazine from 1984 to 2011.
He began his career in journalism as a reporter on the business desk of The Washington Post in 1969 and left the paper to become a freelancer in 1973. [1] His work has appeared in The Sunday Times , The New Republic and the Columbia Journalism Review . He joined the National Journal in 1976, where he wrote the "Economic Focus" column. He was a contributing editor there from 1981 to 1984, when he left to write for Newsweek. [2] At age 75, Samuelson posted his last op-ed article in The Washington Post on September 14, 2020.
Samuelson was born in New York City and raised in nearby White Plains, New York. [3] He received his bachelor's degree in 1967 from Harvard University, where he concentrated in government. [4] He and his wife, Judith Herr, live in Bethesda, Maryland and have three children. [2] [5]
Samuelson has received: [2]
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