Robinson led the Globe's coverage of the Roman Catholic clergy sexual abuse scandal, for which the newspaper won, and he personally accepted, the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
[1][2][3] The last investigation Robinson led for the Spotlight Team, "Debtors Hell", exposed the practices of debt collectors.
The Pulitzer Board cited the staff's "well documented exposure, in print and online, of unscrupulous debt collectors, causing two firms to close and prompting action by state officials.
"[6] Robinson graduated from Boston College High School and Northeastern University with a journalism degree.
After two years in Hawaii, Robinson served as an intelligence officer with the First Cavalry Division (Airmobile) in Vietnam from 1970 to 1971.
Robinson has covered and written extensively about the World War II-era looting of thousands of pieces of cultural artworks from German institutions.