Robin Reisig

Robin Reisig

Robin Reisig has covered a number of America's movements for social change, including the civil rights movement, the women's movement, antiwar protests, and the emergence of the blue-collar right. She has reported on mainstream politics, with an emphasis on New York City government, and has done investigative reporting, including an article for which she won the Don Hollenbeck award. She has been a reporter for The Village Voice, the Washington Post, the American Lawyer magazine and the Southern Courier. Her freelance writing has appeared in many magazines including Life, The New Republic, The Nation, gothamgazette.com, and the News of the Week in Review, Book Review and Travel sections of The New York Times. She has been an editor on Newsday's feature page and on Newsday and New York Newsday's opinion sections. Her writing about the women's movement and the Vietnam War has been included in anthologies. Reisig, who holds a B.A. from Wellesley and an M.S. from Columbia, has been teaching at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism since 1983. In 2006, nominated by her former students, she received the Graduate School of Journalism’s Alumni Award.