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Toluse "Tolu" Olorunnipa (Toe-Loo Oh-lo-roo-NEE-pa) is a Nigerian-American journalist and political commentator. He is the first reporter of native African and Nigerian descent to cover the White House. Of Yoruba heritage, Olorunnipa was named the White House Bureau Chief for The Washington Post in July 2022.

Education

Olorunnipa earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and MSc from Stanford University. In college, Olorunnipa wrote for The Stanford Daily.

Career

Olorunnipa writes for The Washington Post and is an analyst for CNN. He previously worked for Bloomberg News and The Miami Herald. His columns have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Tampa Bay Times, The Seattle Times, The Nation, and others. He has been featured as a panelist on Washington Week and Face the Nation, and frequently appears on CNN, MSNBC, CBS News, and C-SPAN as a political analyst.

In 2022 he coauthored the biography about George Floyd His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice with journalist Robert Samuels.

References

1. Omotayo, Joseph (2019-07-29). "Meet Toluse Olorunnipa, 1st Nigerian-reporter to cover White House". www.legit.ng. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
2. "Toluse Olorunnipa named White House bureau chief". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2022-07-27.
3. "Washington Post hires Bloomberg's Olorunnipa". Talking Biz News. 2019-01-24. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
4. "Washington Post hires Bloomberg's Olorunnipa". Talking Biz News. 2019-01-24. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
5. Admin. "Toluse Olorunnipa". Washington Post. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
6. Admin (16 August 2018). "Toluse Olorunnipa". www.pbs.org. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
7. "Toluse Olorunnipa". Washington Week. 2018-08-16. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
8. "Toluse Olorunnipa - Dems weigh the cost of ambition". Jewish World Review. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
9. Joseph, Peniel E. (May 17, 2022). "Who Was George Floyd?". The New York Times.
10. Mark Whitaker (2022-05-13). "A moving portrait of George Floyd, his struggles and his legacy". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. ISSN 0190-8286. OCLC 1330888409.

External links

• Toluse Olorunnipa on Twitter
• Toluse Olorunnipa in the Internet Movie Database
• Washington post profile of Toluse Olorunnipa

• Living people
• 1986 births
• Nigerian emigrants to the United States
• Stanford University alumni
• American television reporters and correspondents
• Emmy Award winners
• CNN people
• American people of Yoruba descent
• Yoruba journalists
• African-American journalists
• 21st-century African-American people
• 20th-century African-American people