Tobin's opinion columns appear in the Jewish News Syndicate on a daily basis. He is also a contributing writer for National Review, a conservative magazine of opinion and ideas, a columnist for the New York Post, a contributor for The Federalist, a columnist for Haaretz, a columnist for the New York Jewish Week, a contributor to the Gatestone Institute and to the Israeli magazine, MiDA. He is a frequent commentator on domestic politics, Israel, and Jewish affairs. His column, "View from America," appeared for many years in The Jerusalem Post. His work has also appeared in Israel Hayom, the Christian Science Monitor, The Forward, Britain's Jewish Chronicle, the New York Sun and many other publications. Tobin lectures widely across the United States on college campuses and to Jewish organizations and synagogues. with J.J. Goldberg of The Forward and has appeared on CNN, BBC Radio, Fox News, Newsmax, i24News and local network affiliates to discuss politics, foreign policy and Jewish issues. From 2009 to 2011, he was executive editor of Commentary, a neo-conservative monthly magazine. From 2011 to 2017, he was senior online editor and chief political blogger at Commentary and the author of feature articles, reviews and blog posts there. Tobin was executive editor of The Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia from 1998 through 2008. Prior to that he was executive editor of the Connecticut Jewish Ledger. In 2003, Tobin told an interviewer that Jewish journalism has improved in quality over the last 20 years, but that there are constraints because many American Jewish newspapers are owned by Jewish federations, rather than being independent corporations. This problem, he said, is not different from the problems faced by other newspapers: "Nobody at The Philadelphia Inquirer reports aggressively on Knight-Ridder Corp." He told an interviewer for The New York Times that "My job as editor is to talk about things people are not willing to talk about." In the same article, the Times wrote that "In his three-year tenure at The Ledger, an independently owned newspaper, Mr. Tobin, a Long Island native, has turned the once-stodgy weekly into a plucky newspaper with stories on abuses at a local Jewish nursing home and domestic violence among Jews."
