Toluse Olorunnipa | |
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| 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-roon-NEE-pa) is aNigerian-American journalist and political commentator. He is the first reporter of nativeAfrican andNigerian descent to cover theWhite House.[1] OfYoruba heritage, Olorunnipa was named the White House Bureau Chief for The Washington Post in July 2022.[2]
Olorunnipa earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and MSc fromStanford University.[3] In college, Olorunnipa wrote forThe Stanford Daily.
Olorunnipa writes forThe Washington Post and is an analyst forCNN.[4] He previously worked forBloomberg News andThe Miami Herald.[5][6][7] His columns have been featured inThe 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 onWashington Week andFace the Nation, and frequently appears onCNN,MSNBC,CBS News, andC-SPAN as a political analyst.
In 2022 he coauthored the biography aboutGeorge FloydHis Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice with journalistRobert Samuels.[9][10] The book was a finalist for the 2022National Book Award for Nonfiction[11] and the winner of the 2023Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.[12]
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