Walter Robinson

“There’s no one anywhere on the vast landscape of American journalism who merits this award more than you do,” Northeastern University professor Walter V. Robinson, a former Globe Spotlight Team editor, told Risen in presenting the Stephen Hamblett First Amendment Award. “It is hard to imagine a more principled and patriotic defense of the First […]

Walter Robinson, a former investigative reporter at the Boston Globe who is now a professor of journalism at Northeastern University, said state lawmakers shouldn’t need a special commission to tell them their actions should be subject to public scrutiny. “It has been 233 years since the ratification of the Massachusetts Constitution and its Declaration of Rights, which […]

FORTY-FOUR years before German Chancellor Angela Merkel discovered that the National Security Agency had been listening to her cellphone calls, President Nixon met with South Korean President Park Chung-Hee to discuss a substantial boost in American military aid to thwart a worrisome threat from North Korea. That August 1969, summit meeting in San Francisco was as […]

Former Globe reporter and now Northeastern University professor Walter Robinson is hopeful Henry can maintain the same excellence of journalism at the Globe that he has brought to his other endeavors, most especially the Red Sox. “My hope, my expectation is that nothing will change, that the paper will continue to do the kind of […]

Walter Robinson, director of the First Amendment Center at Northeastern University, hailed the ruling. “What a delight to know that Judge Stearns recognized this for what it was: an outrageous attempt to intimidate a newspaper whose sole intent was to inform the public,” Robinson said.