Rob Capriccioso
Rob Capriccioso is the Washington D.C. Bureau Chief for Indian Country Today Media Network. An enrolled citizen of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, he covers the White House, the Executive Branch, the United States Congress, the Supreme Court of the United States, and presidential campaigns; 2004; 2008; and 2012. He is the first Native American journalist to Q&A a sitting president, in an Oct. 4, 2012 news story titled, "President Obama Answers Questions From Indian Country Today Media Network in Unprecedented Exchange." He interviews such notables as former White House Chief of Staff Pete Rouse, Bolivian President Evo Morales, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, former Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff, members of Congress and tribal leaders. His reporting on indigenous issues was cited in testimony to Congress.
One of a small number of Native American journalists to contribute to mainstream media, he conducts political writing and editing, served as a contributing editor to Campaigns and Elections Politics Magazine, helped launch Politico as its founding website editor, and appears on National Public Radio to discuss Native and political topics of the day. In 2009–10, he was a contributor to True/Slant, the Forbes-backed online network. His articles have appeared in American Indian Report, News from Indian Country, The New York Sun, High Country News, The American, Cultural Survival Quarterly, the New York Post's PageSix.com, Radar Magazine, TMZ.com, The New York Times and The Guardian, He reported education and youth issues for Connect for Kids, and Inside Higher Ed, in Washington D.C. He is a political science and psychology alum of the University of Michigan. He resides in metro Washington DC.
