In 2000, Walter V. Robinson became the Boston Globe assistant managing editor for investigations, and editor of the newspaper's investigative unit, the Spotlight Team.

Robinson spent his career at the Globe , where he specialized in political and investigative stories, as both reporter and editor , and reported stories from 48 of the 50 states and more than 30 foreign countries.

Robinson was a 1974 graduate of Northeastern University. He was a Northeastern junior when he won his first investigative reporting award for the Globe . Earlier, he interrupted his Northeastern education to spend four years in the US Army, including a tour in Vietnam as an intelligence officer with the First Cavalry Division. In 1981-82, he was a journalism fellow at Stanford University. From 2000 through 2006, he was the Globe 's

Listen to Robinson describe "one of the best jobs in journalism."