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 atThe Washington Post.
Robert Samuels is a graduate of theMedill 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 ofThe Daily Northwestern.[2] After working at an internship atThe 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 theLivingston Award for Young Journalists and theToner Award for National Political Reporting. With a team of reporters, he won a George Polk Award and a Peabody Award.[3] WithToluse Olorunnipa, he is the co-author ofHis Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice, a 2022 biography aboutGeorge Floyd.[4][5] The book was a finalist for the 2022National Book Award for Nonfiction[6] and the winner of the 2023Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.[7]
