Carla Robbins is an American journalist and the former deputy

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editor of ''

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''. Prior to her career at ''The New York Times'', Robbins worked for ''

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'', '' U.S. News & World Report'', and ''

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''. During her thirteen-year career at ''The Wall Street Journal'', she was a member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting teams.

Career

Robbins graduated from

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in 1974, with a bachelor's degree in

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. She subsequently attended

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, receiving master and doctorate degrees also in political science. In 1982, Robbins worked as an editor and, later, as a

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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. She left ''U.S. News & World Report'' in 1992. In 1993 she began working as a reporter and news editor at ''The Wall Street Journal'', going on to be their lead writer on

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. In July 2006, she began working as an editor at ''The New York Times''. In January 2007, she became the deputy editorial page editor. In July 2012, Robbins resigned from ''The New York Times'' to take time to work on a book project. It was also announced that she will consult for ''The New York Times'' on expanding their "global opinion report." She is the program director of Masters in International Affairs and Clinical Professor at Baruch College. She is an adjunct senior fellow in the

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Awards

In 1984, while working at ''BusinessWeek'', Robbins was one of the recipients of an

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award. In 1990, she received a

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from

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. In 2004, she shared the Elizabeth Neuffer Award for Print Journalism and the Peter R. Weitz Senior Prize. In 2005, she was a Hoover Media Fellow at Stanford University. 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

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for their coverage of the

1998 Russian financial crisis The Russian financial crisis (also called the ruble crisis or the Russian flu) began in Russia on 17 August 1998. It resulted in the Russian government and the Russian Central Bank devaluing the ruble and defaulting on its debt. The crisis had s ...

. The following year, she was a member of a team who were awarded the

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for stories examining U.S. defense spending and military decisions following the Cold War. In 2003, she was awarded the

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Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting.

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