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Gail Robinson has 25 years experience as a political journalist. She edited and wrote for an environmental magazine with an urban focus, covered education for a daily newspaper, supervised political columns for a national newspaper feature syndicate and served as executive editor of monthly magazine offering Americans global perspectives. Robinson joined the Gotham Gazette staff in 2000. Along with editing, she has written extensively about the recent upheaval in the New York City school system, covered local political contests and reported on issues from parades to pollution. She has worked on Gotham Gazette’s early forays into games, including an effort that won a 2007 News Challenge grant. A resident of Brooklyn and loyal (if not native) New Yorker, Robinson became editor-in-chief of Gotham Gazette in 2007.