Carla Robbins is Named Assistant Editorial Page Editor of the New York Times.

NEW YORK -- Carla Anne Robbins will join The New York Times as an editorial board member and assistant editorial page editor on July 17. Gail Collins, editor of the editorial page, announced the appointment today.

"We are delighted to have Carla join us," Ms. Collins said. "She is as brilliant an editor as she is a writer, and both our readers and editorial board will benefit from her extensive experience and deep insight into foreign affairs."

Ms. Robbins, 53, has been a reporter and news editor at The Wall Street Journal since 1993, where most recently she wrote about proliferation and nuclear weapons. Earlier, Ms. Robbins became the paper's lead foreign policy writer, and from 1999 to 2005 she also edited the Washington bureau's feature articles on foreign policy, defense and national security.

Ms. Robbins worked at US News & World Report from 1986 to 1992, first as Latin America bureau chief and later as senior diplomatic correspondent. She began her career at Business Week in 1982 as an editor and then State Department reporter.

Ms. Robbins received the 2003 Georgetown University Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting. At The Wall Street Journal, she was a member of the team that received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting and the team that received the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. Ms. Robbins was also a member of teams that shared the 2004 Elizabeth Neuffer Award for Print Journalism, given by the U.N. Correspondents' Association, and the 2004 Peter R. Weitz Senior Prize, awarded by the German Marshall Fund of the United States. At Business Week, she shared an Overseas Press Club award in 1984.

Ms. Robbins received her bachelor's degree in political science from Wellesley College in 1974. She holds a master's and a doctorate, both in political science, from the University of California, Berkeley. She was a Nieman fellow at Harvard University and has been a Hoover media fellow at Stanford University.

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