Robert Samuels | |
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Alma mater | Northwestern University (BA) |
Occupation | Journalist |
Notable work | His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice |
Robert Samuels is an American journalist. He is a national enterprise reporter at The Washington Post .
Robert Samuels is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. [1] As an undergraduate, he was the editor of BlackBoard, the black student magazine, but left the job to become the editor-in-chief of The Daily Northwestern. [2] After working at an internship at The Washington Post, he took a full-time job as a staff writer at The Miami Herald. In February 2011, he returned to the staff at The Post, where he developed a reputation for doing on-the-ground stories about race, politics and the changing American identity. His work garnered him many awards, including a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists and the Toner Award for National Political Reporting. With a team of reporters, he won a George Polk Award and a Peabody Award. [3] With Toluse Olorunnipa, he is the co-author of His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice , a 2022 biography about George Floyd. [4] [5] The book was a finalist for the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction [6] and the winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. [7]
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