Robin Fields


Robin Fields is an American journalist and investigative reporter with ProPublica, an independent, not-for-profit news agency.

Early life, education and career

Fields was born in New York City. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts in European History and from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism with a Masters Degree in 1993.
After graduating from Medill, Fields was briefly an intern with WBBM-TV until becoming a staff writer and eventually senior writer at The Sun Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale. In 1999 Fields began work at The Los Angeles Times, first in the Orange County Office and then in 2001 moving to the Los Angeles office as a reporter in the Metro Section. Stories in recent years have included chronicling abuses at the J. Paul Getty Trust, investigations into Norman Hsu’s political fundraising and California’s adult guardianship system.

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