Josh Robin

Josh Robin is a New York-based journalist for Spectrum News. He anchors SN+, Spectrum’s national all-news channel, and frequently contributes to local Spectrum News stations around the nation. He is also the network’s chief national political reporter and anchored Spectrum’s 2024 election night coverage.

Robin has covered national and New York elections for decades, interviewing Pres. Donald Trump and asking questions of numerous presidents and presidential candidates. He has reported from political conventions since 2000 and in 2018, he broke a major international news story when he exposed that the first Trump administration had separated children from their parents at the southern border, bringing young girls unaccompanied to New York in the middle of the night. Footage ran for hours on network television. Trump ended the separation program later that day.

Robin began his television career with NY1, Spectrum’s beloved all-news channel in New York City, where he covered New York politics, including countless resignations and scandals. He has interviewed every New York mayor since Ed Koch and every governor since Mario Cuomo. He has received numerous awards including several Emmys, and prizes from the Society of Professional Journalists, the New York Press Club, the Associated Press and the Religion News Association.

He has also drawn accolades for his innovative coverage of environmental issues, including his in-depth reporting after Superstorm Sandy, which killed more than 100 people in 2012. Robin was the first to report on New York’s multi-billion dollar resiliency plan, which continues to reshape the Northeastern coast and city streetscapes with storm barriers and other measures to limit damage from harsh weather and rising sea levels.

Robin began his career as a newspaper reporter, and his work has appeared in Newsday, The Seattle Times, The New York Times, Politico, The New York Daily News, The Daily Beast, BuzzFeed and The Nairobi Law Monthly.

A speaker of Spanish and Hebrew, Josh got his undergraduate degree from Tufts University and a MA in journalism from Stanford University. He lives in New York City with his wife, journalist Manoush Zomorodi.