“News Assistant for The New York Times in Atlanta”
Writes, Reports and Researches about the South
Siren on Oil Rig Was Kept Silent, Technician Says
(The New York Times, Front Page, July 24, 2010) By ROBBIE BROWN KENNER, La. — The emergency alarm on the Deepwater Horizon was not fully activated the day the oil rig caught fire and exploded, killing 11 people and setting off the...
Hard Times Find This White House Up for Sale
(The New York Times, Front Page, Jan. 8, 2009) By ROBBIE BROWN ATLANTA — The replica of George W. Bush’s desk still sits in the Oval Office beneath the Iranian and American flags. The seal of the president of the United States...
Putting the Pounce Back in Your Pup
(The New York Times, Escapes Section Cover, June 11, 2010) By ROBBIE BROWN CARLISLE, Pa. THE rolling hunting grounds in southern Pennsylvania were teeming with rabbits — brown streaks darting into plastic hutches, cottontails munching...
Biography
Photo by David Feldman
Robbie works for The New York Times’s bureau in Atlanta as a regional news assistant. He writes, reports and researches about the South, and contributes to the reporting of three national correspondents: Kim Severson, Lizette Alvarez and Campbell Robertson. He spends a lot of time in his car, driving to small towns, eating fried food and occasionally inspecting houses filled with 20,000 bats.
He covers nine states — some of the nation’s friendliest, poorest, most religious, most conservative and (he thinks) most fascinating — Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. He has written about events large and small, from the BP oil spill to a rare type of lightning bug that has a cult following, from presidential campaigns to the foreclosure of a replica of the White House. His articles have appeared in most sections of The New York Times: National, International, Metropolitan, Arts, Business, Sunday Review, Education Life, Escapes and Science.
Before joining the Times in 2008, he interned and reported for Newsweek, The Boston Globe, The Cape Times of South Africa, The Dayton Daily News of Ohio and Creative Loafing of Atlanta. He has also contributed stories to “This American Life,” MSNBC.com, BusinessWeek.com, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and other news organizations, and reported from India, Egypt, Scotland, England and Norway.
A native of Atlanta, he lives in the Inman Park neighborhood with his basset hound, Elvis. They tried (unsuccessfully) to learn to hunt rabbits for this Times article and video. Robbie graduated from Emory University in 2007 with highest honors in journalism.
Biography
Photo by David Feldman
Robbie works for The New York Times’s bureau in Atlanta as a regional news assistant. He writes, reports and researches about the South, and contributes to the reporting of three national correspondents: Kim Severson, Lizette Alvarez and Campbell Robertson. He spends a lot of time in his car, driving to small towns, eating fried food and occasionally inspecting houses filled with 20,000 bats.
He covers nine states — some of the nation’s friendliest, poorest, most religious, most conservative and (he thinks) most fascinating — Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. He has written about events large and small, from the BP oil spill to a rare type of lightning bug that has a cult following, from presidential campaigns to the foreclosure of a replica of the White House. His articles have appeared in most sections of The New York Times: National, International, Metropolitan, Arts, Business, Sunday Review, Education Life, Escapes and Science.
Before joining the Times in 2008, he interned and reported for Newsweek, The Boston Globe, The Cape Times of South Africa, The Dayton Daily News of Ohio and Creative Loafing of Atlanta. He has also contributed stories to “This American Life,” MSNBC.com, BusinessWeek.com, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and other news organizations, and reported from India, Egypt, Scotland, England and Norway.
A native of Atlanta, he lives in the Inman Park neighborhood with his basset hound, Elvis. They tried (unsuccessfully) to learn to hunt rabbits for this Times article and video. Robbie graduated from Emory University in 2007 with highest honors in journalism.
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