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Ted Robbins covers the Southwest: Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, West Texas, northern Mexico, and Utah. He spent five years as a regular contributor to The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. He spent 15 years at the PBS affiliate in Tucson, working as a field producer for CBS News. He has had stints at NBC affiliates in Tucson and Salt Lake City, as well as radio reporting in Salt Lake and print reporting for USA Today. He joined NPR in October 2004 and is based in Tucson. [CR-LF][CR-LF]Robbins' beat includes the Mexican border, so his reporting focuses on immigration, water, development, land-use, natural resources, and the environment. [CR-LF][CR-LF]Robbins has also done international reporting in Mexico, El Salvador, Nepal, and Sudan. [CR-LF][CR-LF]Robbins? reporting has won numerous awards, including Emmys for a story on sex education in schools, and a series on women at work. He won a CINE Golden Eagle for a 1995 documentary on Mexican agriculture called ?Tomatoes for the North.?[CR-LF][CR-LF]Ted earned his B.A. in psychology and his master's in journalism, both from the University of California at Berkeley. He also taught journalism at the University of Arizona for 10 years.

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