Robin Pogrebin (''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 is the daughter of the writer
Letty Cottin Pogrebin and Bert Pogrebin, a 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
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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 was a staff reporter for the ''
New York Observer
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'', covering a range of subjects including city government, law and the restaurant business.
Pogrebin has occasionally written freelance pieces for publications such as ''
Architectural Digest
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...
'', ''
New York
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'', ''
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 which was published in September 2019 from Portfolio Books, a division of Penguin Random House. 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 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.
Personal life
In 1993, she married attorney Edward J. Klaris in
New Paltz,
New York
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.
See also
*
New Yorkers in journalism
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References
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The New York Times journalists
1965 births
Living people
Yale University alumni
Jewish American journalists
20th-century American journalists
20th-century American women journalists
American twins
21st-century American journalists
21st-century American women journalists
21st-century American Jews