Olorunnipa briefed National Press Foundation fellows in April 2024: White House Bureau Chief: Centering People in Politics and Policy. 

Toluse “Tolu” Olorunnipa (Toe·Loo Ol·lor·oo·NEE·pah) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and the White House Bureau Chief of The Washington Post. Together with Robert Samuels, he authored “His Name is George Floyd,” which won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction. He joined The Post in 2019 and has covered the last three presidents. Previously, he spent five years at Bloomberg News, where he reported on politics and policy from Washington and Florida. Olorunnipa has reported from five continents and more than 25 countries as part of the presidential press corps. The son of Nigerian immigrants, he grew up in Tallahassee, Florida, and started his journalism career at the Miami Herald.