Robin Toner 1954-2008
Robin Toner, the first woman chief national political writer for the New York Times, died of colon cancer on December 12, 2008 at her home in Washington. She was 54.
Toner covered five Presidential campaigns and numerous Congressional and state elections. She also wrote extensively about health policy including covering the Clinton health care reform initiative.
Born in Chester, PA, she was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Syracuse University where she majored in journalism and political science.
Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts told the New York Times,
Robin was a reporter’s reporter who deeply cared about the people and the issues she covered. There was rarely a day during our health care debates that I didn’t open the paper to read Robin’s story and learn how what we were doing impacted people.
She is survived by her husband Peter G. Gosselin, economics reporter for the Los Angeles Times, and their twin 11-year-old children, Jacob Gosselin and Nora Gosselin.
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