John Robinson

John Robinson is in charge of the news, features and sports content of the News & Record and www.News-Record.com. He has been at the News & Record since 1985, when he started as an assistant city editor. Since then, he's been city editor, assistant managing editor, editorial page editor and Team Management coach. He has been editor of the paper since 1999. Born in Virginia and reared in Oklahoma, Mr. Robinson graduated from high school in Raleigh and earned a B.A. at St. Andrews Presbyterian College in Laurinburg. He has taught school in Salisbury, helped build a mental health hospital in Raleigh, edited a magazine in Norfolk, Va., and worked at newspapers in Monroe, N.C., Asheville and Raleigh. Mr. Robinson and his wife, Susan, a Greensboro native, have two teenage daughters. He attended API’s seminar for Editorial Page Editors in 1997 and Executive and Managing Editors in 1990.