Lynda Robinson

Lynda Robinson is the local enterprise and projects editor at The Washington Post. Her writers have won awards from the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the American Society of Feature Editors, Scripps Howard, the Casey Foundation, the Education Writers Association, and the Religion News Association. In 1997, she co-edited “The Umpire’s Sons,” which won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. In 2014, she was part of the team that worked on The Post’s coverage of the Navy Yard shooting, which was a Pulitzer finalist for breaking news. 

Robinson has edited three books, including the newly released “Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos.” She previously worked at The Washington Post Magazine, Capital Style magazine and The Baltimore Sun and has degrees in history and political science from Penn State University and a master’s degree in public affairs journalism from American University.