Tom Robbins appears in the following:
The End of a Journalism Era in NYC
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Remembering Wayne Barrett
Monday, January 23, 2017
Accounts of Violent Guard Abuse at a New York Prison
Thursday, December 01, 2016
Vito Lopez, Former New York State Assemblyman, Leaves Complicated Legacy
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Attica Prisoner Beating Resonates With a Violent Past
Thursday, March 05, 2015
Remembering Mario Cuomo
Tuesday, January 06, 2015
Mayor-elect de Blasio Announces Top Admin Picks
Wednesday, December 04, 2013
Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio has announced several key appointments to his cabinet this morning. Anthony Shorris will be first deputy mayor. Emma Wolfe will be Director of Intergovernmental Affairs. And Dominic Williams will be Shorris' Chief of Staff.
WNYC's Brigid Bergin and Kathleen Horan are at the press conference. Tom Robbins, investigative journalist in residence at the CUNY School of Journalism and former longtime columnist at the Village Voice, talks about the appointments and what they suggest about de Blasio's policy priorities.
Between WWII and His Suicide, de Blasio's Father a Cold Warrior
Monday, October 14, 2013
Mob Boss
Friday, October 04, 2013
Former boss "Little Al" D'Arco was the highest-ranking mobster to become a government informant. His life story is told by Tom Robbins in his new book Mob Boss: The Life of Little Al D’Arco, The Man Who Brought Down the Mafia. Robbins is an investigative journalist in residence at the CUNY School of Journalism and former longtime columnist at the Village Voice. Jerry Capeci, who writes a weekly column on organized crime at GangLandNews.com and has covered the mafia as a journalist for decades, co-authored the new book.
Watch: Tom Robbins on Whether War is Inevitable
Tuesday, April 03, 2012
Tom Robbins, former longtime Village Voice writer who is now the investigative journalist in residence at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, visited the WNYC studios recently. He answered the question at the center of the Brian Lehrer Show End of War series: Is war inevitable?
New York's Worst Landlord
Friday, March 30, 2012
Tom Robbins, investigative journalist in residence at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and former longtime columnist at the Village Voice, and Harold Shultz, senior fellow at the Citizens Housing and Planning Council and former special counsel at the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, discuss CUNY and City Limits' investigation into Frank Palazzolo, the Bronx's "phantom landlord," and how to protect tenants from similar circumstances.
The NYPD and "The Third Jihad"
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Elizabeth Goitein, co-director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice and Tom Robbins, investigative journalist in residence at the CUNY School of Journalism and former longtime columnist at the Village Voice, discuss the investigation into the NYPD's involvement in the controversial film "The Third Jihad."
Watch the full video below. Note: Ray Kelly appears at 55:45 in a section on "Nuclear Threat"
Organized Crime Arrests
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Early this morning the FBI and local law enforcement made what may be the biggest mafia bust in a single day in US history. Over 100 organized crime members have been arrested for various criminal charges. Tom Robbins, Village Voice reporter, and Jon M. Shane, assistant professor of criminal justice at John Jay College, join us to talk about the arrests.
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Paterson Faces the Music
Monday, September 28, 2009
Behind Bloomberg's Other Media Network
Thursday, August 06, 2009
New York, NY —
NYC-TV is the city's own television station, and it used be, well, a sleepy place not exactly known for cutting edge broadcasts. Under Mayor Bloomberg, who made his fortune in the media business, the annual budget of NYC-TV jumped from about $2-million to over $10-million, ...