Toluse Olorunnipa

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Toluse Olorunnipa
Alma mater Stanford University (BA, MSc)
Occupation(s)Journalist; political commentator
Notable work His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
Website toluse.com

Toluse "Tolu" Olorunnipa (Toe-Loo Oh-lo-roo-NEE-pa) is a Nigerian-American journalist and political commentator. He is the first reporter of native African and Nigerian descent to cover the White House. [1] Of Yoruba heritage, Olorunnipa was named the White House Bureau Chief for The Washington Post in July 2022. [2]

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Education

Olorunnipa earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and MSc from Stanford University. [3] In college, Olorunnipa wrote for The Stanford Daily .

Career

Olorunnipa writes for The Washington Post and is an analyst for CNN. [4] He previously worked for Bloomberg News and The Miami Herald. [5] [6] [7] His columns have been featured in The Wall Street Journal , The Chicago Tribune , Bloomberg Businessweek , The Tampa Bay Times , The Seattle Times , The Nation , and others. [8] He has been featured as a panelist on Washington Week and Face the Nation , and frequently appears on CNN, MSNBC, CBS News, and C-SPAN as a political analyst.

In 2022 he coauthored the biography about George Floyd His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice with journalist Robert Samuels. [9] [10]

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References

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