Toluse Olorunnipa | |
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Alma mater | Stanford University ( BA, MSc) |
Website | toluse.com |
Toluse "Tolu" Olorunnipa ( Toe-Loo Oh-lo-roo-NEE-pa; is a Nigerian-American journalist and political commentator. He is the first reporter of native African and Nigerian descent to cover the White House. [1] Of Yoruba heritage, Olorunnipa was named the White House Bureau Chief for The Washington Post in July 2022. [2]
Olorunnipa earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and MSc from Stanford University. [3] In college, Olorunnipa wrote for The Stanford Daily.
Olorunnipa writes for The Washington Post and is an analyst for CNN. [4] He previously worked for Bloomberg News and The Miami Herald. [5] [6] [7] His columns have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Tampa Bay Times, The Seattle Times, The Nation, and others. [8] He has been featured as a panelist on Washington Week and Face the Nation, and frequently appears on CNN, MSNBC, CBS News, and C-SPAN as a political analyst.
In 2022 he coauthored the biography about George Floyd His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice with journalist Robert Samuels. [9] [10]