Robin Pogrebin (pron. ro-bin POG-re-bin, born May 17, 1965) has been a reporter for ''
The New York Times
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'' since 1995, where she covers cultural institutions, the art world, architecture, and other subjects.
Biography
Pogrebin was born to a
Jewish
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family, the daughter of writer
Letty Cottin Pogrebin and Bert Pogrebin, a management-side labor lawyer.
["Weddings; Edward Klaris and Robin Pogrebin"]
New York Times, January 17, 1993. She is the identical twin sister of
Abigail Pogrebin, also a writer. She is a graduate of
Yale University
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.
At the ''Times'', Pogrebin previously covered the media for the business desk and city news for the metro desk. She was also previously an associate producer for
Peter Jennings
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' documentary unit at
ABC News
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, where she covered stories on subjects such as
Bosnia
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and
Haiti
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.
Before that, she spent three years as a staff reporter for the ''
New York Observer
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Music
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'', covering a range of subjects including city government, law and the restaurant business.
Pogrebin's articles also run regularly in the ''
International Herald Tribune'' and she has occasionally written freelance pieces for publications such as ''
Architectural Digest
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'', ''
New York
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* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
New York may also refer to:
Film and television
* '' ...
'', ''
Vogue'', and ''
Departures''.
Pogrebin is also the author, with
Kate Kelly, of ''The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation,'' a book about
allegations from Kavanaugh's 2018 Supreme Court nomination hearings with a publishing date in September 2019 from Portfolio Books, a division of Penguin Random House. Before publication, the ''Times'' published a widely criticized essay adapted from the book that primarily addressed accusations about an incident with
Deborah Ramirez and another incident alleged by
Max Stier, both of which occurred at Yale. Before Kavanaugh's confirmation in October, 2018, Pogrebin, who was a classmate of Kavanaugh at Yale, and Kelly, also at the ''Times'', were featured in a podcast about what the then-judge's classmates were saying concerning his nomination to the
Supreme Court
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.
[ Barbaro, Michael (host)]
"Kavanaugh's classmates speak out" (27:03 min. audio)
New York Times, October 2, 2018. Retrieved 2019-09-16.
See also
*
New Yorkers in journalism
Personal life
In 1993, she married attorney Edward J. Klaris in a
Jewish
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ceremony in
New Paltz
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,
New York
New York most commonly refers to:
* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
New York may also refer to:
Film and television
* '' ...
. They separated in 2022.
References
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The New York Times writers
1965 births
Living people
Yale University alumni
Jewish American journalists
20th-century American journalists
American twins
21st-century American journalists
American women journalists
20th-century American women
21st-century American women
21st-century American Jews