Kaiser, Robert G (1943– )

US editor and author. Working for the Washington Post he distinguished himself as an overseas correspondent in London 1964–66, Saigon in 1969, and Moscow 1971–74, and on the national staff 1975–82. He became assistant managing editor of national news in 1985, deputy managing editor in 1990, and then associate editor and senior correspondent. He was the author of several books on the former Soviet Union, including Russia from the Inside and Why Gorbachev Happened, as well as a book about journalism, The News about the News: American Journalism in Peril (2002).

He was born in Washington, DC and joined the Washington Post as a summer intern in 1963.