Roxanne M. Roberts is a style writer for the Washington Post. She shares "The Reliable Source" column with Amy Argetsinger

Amy Argetsinger

Amy Argetsinger is a staff writer for the Style section of The Washington Post. She shares the column known as "The Reliable Source" with Roxanne Roberts. The two appeared regularly on Friday evening segments of MSNBC's Tucker before the show was cancelled...

. She is a regular panelist on the NPR

NPR

NPR, formerly National Public Radio, is a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to a network of 900 public radio stations in the United States. NPR was created in 1970, following congressional passage of the Public Broadcasting...

 quiz show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! is an hour-long weekly radio news panel game show produced by Chicago Public Radio and National Public Radio. It is distributed by NPR in the United States, internationally on NPR Worldwide and on the Internet via podcast, and typically broadcast on weekends by member...

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In 2000, Roberts appeared on the "In" list in Washingtonian magazine

Washingtonian (magazine)

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In 2009, Roberts received some media attention for her role in the gatecrashing incident

2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches

On November 24, 2009, Michaele and Tareq Salahi , a married couple from Virginia, and Carlos Allen , attended a White House state dinner for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, allegedly without being invited guests. The Salahis and Allen arrived separately and did not appear to have colluded in...

 at the first state dinner under the presidency of Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...

. She informed two Whitehouse staffers that the Salahis were not on the official guest list, and was apparently the only person who caught the mishap that night. However, her suspicions were not acted on, which furthered the image that the white house staff at the event had handled the situation incompetently.