Walter V. Robinson

Who is Walter V. Robinson?

Walter V. Robinson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for the Boston Globe, where he worked as reporter and editor for 34 years. Since 2007, he has been Distinguished Professor of Journalism at Northeastern University in Boston.

Robinson led the Globe's coverage of the Roman Catholic clergy sexual abuse scandal, for which the newspaper won, and he personally accepted, the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. The last investigation Robinson led for the Spotlight Team, called "Debtors Hell", exposed the practices of debt collectors. That work was a finalist for the Local Reporting Pulitzer in 2007. The Pulitzer Board cited the staff's "well documented exposure, in print and online, of unscrupulous debt collectors, causing two firms to close and prompting action by state officials."

Robinson graduated from Boston College High School, and Northeastern University. During his Globe career, he was a local, state and national political reporter. He covered four presidential elections, in 1984, 1988, 1992 and 2000. He covered the White House for the Globe during the presidencies of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.