Remembering Tom Robbins, Veteran Reporter Who Exposed Attica Abuses

Remembering Tom Robbins, Veteran Reporter Who Exposed Attica Abuses

Our founder reflects on the legacy of the reporter who helped set the standard for The Marshall Project’s investigations into prison abuse.

Remembering Tom Robbins, Who Bore Witness to Everyday New Yorkers' Battles - City Limits

Remembering journalist and former City Limits editor Tom Robbins, who died this week after decades spent sharing the stories of New Yorkers who, as he put it, “were at work in the trenches…trying to do what government had refused to do” for their neighborhoods. Tom Robbins and Annette Fuentes, City Limits’ editing team in the early 1980s, in the magazine’s offices. (Photo by Brian Patrick O’Donohue/City Limits’ Archives) Tom Robbins first joined…

Remembering Tom Robbins, Journalist Who Crusaded for New Yorkers in Need

A stint on THE CITY’s investigations team capped a career exposing the corrupt and the criminal on behalf of tenants, workers and incarcerated people.