Robert Samuels

The Washington Post’s Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa were key reporters on the newspaper’s award-winning series George Floyd’s America and contributors to the well-received Post Reports podcast episode on Floyd’s life.Samuels has earned distinction for his intimate reporting style while writing on-the-ground stories about politics, policy and the American identity, and contributed a chapter to The Post’s best-selling book, Trump Revealed. Samuels grew up in the Bronx and is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. At the Miami Herald, Samuels won several statewide awards for feature writing as an enterprise reporter. Since joining The Post in 2011, he has been a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists and the Toner Prize for National Political Reporting, the nation’s premier award for political reporting.