{{Short description|American journalist}} {{Infobox person | name = Carla Robbins | image = Carla Robbins.jpg | caption = Robbins at the Halifax International Security Forum 2012 | birth_name = Carla Anne Robbins | birth_date = 1953 | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Journalist | other_names = | education = Wellesley College {{small|(BA, 1974)}}<br/>University of California, Berkeley {{small|(MA, PhD)}} | employer = ''BusinessWeek'' {{small|(1982–1986)}}<br/>''U.S. News & World Report'' {{small|(1986–1992)}}<br/>''The Wall Street Journal'' {{small|(1993–2006)}}<br/>''The New York Times'' {{small|(2006–2012)}} | awards = Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting {{small|(1999, shared)}}<br/>Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting {{small|(2000, shared)}} }}
'''Carla Anne Robbins''' is an American journalist, national security expert,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2022 |title=Austin W. Marxe School Of Public And International Affairs: Faculty bios. |url=https://marxe.baruch.cuny.edu/about/faculty-and-staff/full-time-faculty/ |website=Marxe School at Baruch |publisher=Baruch College / Austin W. Marxe School Of Public And International Affairs}}</ref> and the former deputy editorial page editor of ''The New York Times''. Prior to her career at ''The New York Times'', Robbins worked for ''BusinessWeek'', ''U.S. News & World Report'', and ''The Wall Street Journal''. During her thirteen-year career at ''The Wall Street Journal'', she won multiple awards<ref name=":0" /> and was a member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting teams. She is now a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations where she co-hosted the weekly podcast [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-world-next-week/id306597476 The World Next Week] and faculty director of the MIA program at Baruch College's Marxe School of Public and International Affairs.
==Career== Robbins graduated from Wellesley College in 1974, with a bachelor's degree in political science. She subsequently attended University of California, Berkeley, receiving master and doctorate degrees in political science.<ref name=wellesley />
In 1982, Robbins worked as an editor and, later, as a State Department reporter for ''BusinessWeek''. In 1986, she began working as the Latin America bureau chief for ''U.S. News & World Report'', where she later became a senior diplomatic correspondent. In 1993 she began working as a reporter and news editor at ''The Wall Street Journal'', going on to be their lead writer on foreign policy.<ref name="wellesley">{{cite web |title=Carla A. Robbins, Deputy Editor of The New York Times |url=http://www.wellesley.edu/albright/faculty/robbins.html |publisher=Wellesley College |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090827171602/http://www.wellesley.edu/albright/faculty/robbins.html |archivedate=2009-08-27 }}</ref> In July 2006, she joined the editorial board of ''The New York Times''. In January 2007, she became the deputy editorial page editor.<ref name=aspen>{{cite web|title=Carla Anne Robbins |url=http://www.aspeninstitute.org/policy-work/aspen-strategy-group/about-aspen-strategy-group/group-members/carla-anne-robbins |publisher=The Aspen Institute |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119014755/http://www.aspeninstitute.org/policy-work/aspen-strategy-group/about-aspen-strategy-group/group-members/carla-anne-robbins |archivedate=2012-01-19 }}</ref> In July 2012, Robbins left ''The New York Times.'' She is now the faculty director of the Master of International Affairs program and a Clinical Professor of National Security Studies at the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs Baruch College.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/mspia/faculty-and-staff/full-time-faculty/carla-robbins.html|title=Carla Robbins - School of Public Affairs - Baruch College {{!}} CUNY|website=www.baruch.cuny.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-02-25}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/mspia/academics/master-of-international-affairs/Meet-Our-Faculty.html|title=School of Public Affairs - Baruch College {{!}} CUNY|website=www.baruch.cuny.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-02-25}}</ref> She is also a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cfr.org/experts/carla-anne-robbins|title=Carla Anne Robbins|website=Council on Foreign Relations|language=en|access-date=2018-02-25}}</ref>
A foreign policy commentator, she is considered an expert on national security and defense issues, with a particular focus on nonproliferation, Iran and North Korea, American politics and foreign policy, Washington’s budget battles, defense spending, and US military rivalries and interventions.<ref name=":0" />
==Awards== In 1984, while working at ''BusinessWeek'', Robbins was one of the recipients of an Overseas Press Club award.<ref name=wellesley /> In 1990, she received a Nieman Fellowship from Harvard University.<ref>{{cite web|title=Alumni Fellows|work=Nieman Reports |url=http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/NiemanFoundation/NiemanFellowships/MeetTheFellows/AlumniFellows.aspx|publisher=Harvard University}}</ref> In 2004, she shared the Elizabeth Neuffer Award for Print Journalism from the U.N. Correspondents Association and the Peter R. Weitz Senior Prize from the German Marshall Fund .<ref name=wellesley /> In 2003 and 2005, she was a Hoover Media Fellow at Stanford University.<ref>{{cite web|title=William and Barbara Edwards Media Fellows by year |url=http://www.hoover.org/fellows/by-title/media-fellows/all |publisher=Stanford University |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140520001034/http://www.hoover.org/fellows/by-title/media-fellows/all |archivedate=2014-05-20 }}</ref>
Robbins has been a member of two teams that have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize. In 1999, she and a team of reporters at ''The Wall Street Journal'' won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for their coverage of the 1998 Russian financial crisis. The following year, she was a member of a team who were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for stories examining U.S. defense spending and military decisions following the Cold War.<ref name=wellesley />
In 2003, she was awarded the Georgetown University Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting.<ref name=wellesley />
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