About Eugene
Eugene Robinson is an American journalist born March 12, 1954, in Orangeburg, South Carolina. He began his journalism career at the San Francisco Chronicle in 1976 and joined The Washington Post in 1980, where he held various positions including city hall reporter, correspondent, bureau chief, and assistant managing editor before becoming a columnist in 2005. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2009 for columns about Barack Obama's presidential campaign. Robinson served as chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board from 2017 to 2018.
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Known for
- Writing newspaper columns on politics and culture
- Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2009
- Political analysis on cable television
- Work as columnist at The Washington Post
- Contributing to public affairs programming on NBC
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