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...Before accepting an offer as the head of the Annenberg School of Communication at USC, Nelson worked prolifically as a journalist writing for newspapers including New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Science magazine, and the Washington Post. His most notable pieces include a series of articles for Science magazine that helped to eliminate government blacklisting on advising panels, winning him the Albert Deutsch Award; and a series on chemical poisoning in America that landed him a spot as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize...
...Nelson said his most well known achievements are not necessarily those he deems his most influential. One of the pieces he is most proud of was his front page New York Times editorial coverage of the 1971 Attica Prison uprising. He also wrote speeches for Senator Frank Church of Idaho, one of the first senators to speak up against the war in Vietnam...
...journalism you aren’t going to affect the world greatly every week or every month,” Nelson said, “But if you can do it a few times than it makes your work worthwhile...
...Nelson left the New York Times, where Darnton says that he expected Nelson to become Editor-in-Chief, to head the USC School of Journalism, which would later become the Annenberg School. Nelson said he found teaching “more rewarding than any bureaucratic tasks...
...former students, who themselves comprise a formidable list of the country’s top journalists, attribute their success to Nelson, whom CNN Anchor Kyra Philips called “not only a fantastic professor but a true friend...