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Robert Rankin

Robert A. Rankin

Politics & Economics Editor

E-mail Robert at rrankin@mcclatchydc.com

Robert A. Rankin is the editor overseeing government and politics coverage, as well as national and international economics. He joined the Knight Ridder Washington bureau in 1987, covering economics and later the Clinton White House. He became an editor in 2000.

Before he joined the bureau, Rankin wrote editorials for The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Miami Herald, where he shared in a Pulitzer Prize. He broke into journalism in 1972 as a reporter for The Richmond News Leader and later covered energy policy for Congressional Quarterly in Washington, D.C.

He was a Bagehot Fellow in economics journalism at Columbia University. He holds an M.A. in government from the University of Virginia and a B.A. in political science from Randolph-Macon College.

Robert Rankin's Latest Story

McClatchy's Thomma wins prize for covering presidency

By Robert A. Rankin | McClatchy Newspapers

Steven Thomma, the senior White House correspondent for McClatchy, has won the coveted 24th annual Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency. » read more

Posted on Wed, May 18, 2011

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