Robert Smithson

Disclaimer: While place descriptions and news events may coincide with the real world, all characters and the plot are fictional. 
== Biography ==
=== Education ===
Robert Smithson is working toward a master's degree at Portland State University.
=== Eyewitness News ===
==== Book 1: Stories We Tell ====
Robert has been the editor of the Portland Review for at least 10 years.
==== Book 2: Choose ====
At the Loft party on Friday October 16, 2020 Robert asks Sarah King to help proof the Christmas edition of Portland Review.
At the editors' meeting the following afternoon, Ryan runs through minor agenda items, then introduces discussion on the protests, the attempted raid, what happens next, and the 6 blackmail photos sent to Carroll. The decision to publish is unanimous.
====Book 4: Hold Me====
*Tuesday December 1, 2020 - Robert is one of the EWN department heads in the Zoom meeting at 3:30pm. When Cage says he's going upstairs later, Corey says Robert is on deadline and hostile under stress. Cage checks on Robert and his assistant, Carol, saying that Sarah can proof pages for them if they make flats and sends them home with him. Robert is relieved, his eyes rimmed with fatigue and grief over Joanna. Cage tells them there is food downstairs from Sarah. Robert says he and Carol will be quarantining in place, until the Portland Review is done and gone to the printers. Cage arranges with Kevin Tighe for a mattress to be dropped off to the Review office for them. 
== Physical Appearance ==
Robert is a tall, thin, gangly man. His hair is sheared on the sides, and the top is bleached blond in a floppy Mohawk. 
Robert wears black ear plugs, a nose stud, a hoop through his lower lip, and another in his left eyebrow. He also has nipple rings. 
He does not have the aggressive body language usually associated with punks. 
=== Book 2: Choose ===
At the Loft party on Friday October 16, 2020 Robert has a new Prince Albert piercing on his penis. All the female sports reporters want to try out, including Joanna Montgomery and Carrie. 
Category:EWN