Lynda Robinson
Washington, D.C.
Local enterprise editor
Education: Penn State University, history and political science; American University, MA in public affairs journalism
Lynda Robinson is the local enterprise and projects editor at The Washington Post. She also runs The Post’s history blog, Retropolis.
In 2020, she edited a series of stories on racism at Virginia Military Institute by Ian Shapira that won a George Polk Award. In 2017, she edited a series on children and gun violence by John Woodrow Cox that was a Pulitzer finalist for feature writing and won awards from Scripps Howard, the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, Columbia Journalism School and the National Education Writers Association.
Her reporters have also received awards from the Nation