Robinson was national resort and travel manager of Golf Digest/Tennis in May 1985 and the advertising director of Tennis magazine from September 1987 until August 1990.

[2] Robinson unexpectedly announced her year-end retirement from the Times on December 15, 2011, after twenty-eight years with the company.

Her severance package valued at about $23 million was disclosed on March 9, 2012, in the company's regulatory filing.

of the Times Company until the search for a permanent successor was completed with the choice of Mark Thompson.

[8] She is the Chair of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, a member of the international advisory board of Fleishman Hillard, chairman of the presidential board of trustees of Salve Regina University and a member of the leadership committee for The Lincoln Center Consolidated Corporate Fund.