Lynda Robinson is the local enterprise and projects editor at The Washington Post. She also created and oversees The Post’s history blog, Retropolis, and has edited four books by Post writers. Robinson was part of a team of journalists who won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for coverage of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

She edited a series of stories on sex trafficking by Jessica Contrera that won the 2022 Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics. In 2020 and 2021, she edited stories by Ian Shapira about racism, sexual assault and waterboarding at Virginia Military Institute that won a George Polk Award, Columbia University's Paul Tobenkin Award and the Education Writers Association Hechinger Grand Prize.

In 2017, she worked on a series about children and gun violence by John Woodrow Cox that was a Pulitzer finalist for feature writing and won awards from Scripps Howard, the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, Columbia Journalism School and the Education Writers Association. In 2014, she was part of the team that worked on The Post’s coverage of the Navy Yard shooting, which was a Pulitzer finalist for breaking news. Robinson has edited four books, including "Children Under Fire: An American Crisis" and “Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos.” She previously worked at The Washington Post Magazine, Capital Style magazine, Baltimore Sun, Roll Call and Bucks County Courier Times.

She earned her BA from Penn State University in history and political science and an MA in public affairs journalism from American University.