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Deborah Nelson

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Deborah Nelson is a Pulitzer prize-winning freelance journalist at Reuters and the Associate Professor of Investigative Reporting at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism[1] at the University of Maryland.

Nelson earned her B.S. in Journalism from Northern Illinois University and her J.D. from the DePaul University College of Law in 1987. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Maryland in 2006, she was the Washington investigations editor for the Los Angeles Times,[2] the national investigative team reporter for The Washington Post,[3] and a reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times.

In 1997, Nelson won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting[4][5] for her investigative work for the Seattle Times, exposing “widespread corruption and inequities in the federally-sponsored housing program for Native Americans, which inspired much-needed reforms.”[4]

In 2008, she received critical acclaim[6] for her book, The War Behind Me: Vietnam Veterans Confront the Truth about U.S. War Crimes, which investigates declassified Army papers on Vietnam-era war crimes and uncovers the lives of soldiers who were witness to the crimes.

Nelson currently teaches courses on investigative reporting and media law and is on the advisory boards of the Fund for Investigative Journalism and the Investigative Reporting Workshop.

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Reuters

Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters Corporation. It employs around 2,500 journalists and 600 photojournalists in about 200 locations worldwide. Reuters is one of the largest news agencies in the world.

Philip Merrill College of Journalism

Philip Merrill College of Journalism

The Philip Merrill College of Journalism is a journalism school located at the University of Maryland, College Park. The college was founded in 1947 and was named after newspaper editor Philip Merrill in 2001. The school has about 550 undergraduates and 70 graduate students enrolled.

University of Maryland, College Park

University of Maryland, College Park

The University of Maryland, College Park is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of Maryland. It is also the largest university in both the state and the Washington metropolitan area, with more than 41,000 students representing all fifty states and 123 countries, and a global alumni network of over 388,000. Together, its 12 schools and colleges offer over 200 degree-granting programs, including 92 undergraduate majors, 107 master's programs, and 83 doctoral programs. UMD is a member of the Association of American Universities and competes in intercollegiate athletics as a member of the Big Ten Conference.

Northern Illinois University

Northern Illinois University

Northern Illinois University (NIU) is a public research university in DeKalb, Illinois. It was founded as Northern Illinois State Normal School on May 22, 1895, by Illinois Governor John P. Altgeld as part of an expansion of the state's system for producing college-educated teachers. In addition to the main campus in DeKalb, it has satellite centers in Chicago, Naperville, Rockford, and Oregon, Illinois.

DePaul University College of Law

DePaul University College of Law

The DePaul University College of Law is the professional graduate law school of DePaul University in Chicago. The College of Law’s facilities encompass nine floors across two buildings, with features such as the Vincent G. Rinn Law Library and Leonard M. Ring Courtroom. The law school is located within two blocks of state and federal courts, as well as numerous law firms, corporations and government agencies.

Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times, abbreviated as LA Times, is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881. Based in the Los Angeles suburb of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the United States. The publication has won more than 40 Pulitzer Prizes. It is owned by Patrick Soon-Shiong and published by the Times Mirror Company. The newspaper's coverage has evolved more recently away from U.S. and international headlines and toward emphasizing California and especially Southern California stories.

The Washington Post

The Washington Post

The Washington Post is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago Sun-Times

The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Since 2022, it is the flagship paper of Chicago Public Media, and has the second largest circulation among Chicago newspapers, after the Chicago Tribune. The modern paper grew out of the 1948 merger of the Chicago Sun and the Chicago Daily Times. Journalists at the paper have received eight Pulitzer prizes, mostly in the 1970s; one recipient was film critic Roger Ebert (1975), who worked at the paper from 1967 until his death in 2013. Long owned by the Marshall Field family, since the 1980s ownership of the paper has changed hands numerous times, including twice in the late 2010s.

Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting

Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting

The Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting has been awarded since 1953, under one name or another, for a distinguished example of investigative reporting by an individual or team, presented as a single article or series in a U.S. news publication. It is administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City.

Investigative Reporting Workshop

Investigative Reporting Workshop

The Investigative Reporting Workshop is a nonprofit, investigative news organization focusing on significant issues of public concern.

Investigative Journalism

As an investigative journalist,[7] Nelson has covered a wide range of topics, centered on exposing problems in the environment, the health industry, income inequality, and human rights violations. Her news publications also have addressed issues of misconduct in the gene therapy field and medical research in developing countries.

Pulitzer Prize

In 1997, Deborah Nelson shared the Pulitzer Prize with Eric Nalder and Alex Tizon for their The Seattle Times series that identified critical problems in the federal government's Indian Housing Program.[8][9] The series, titled Tribal housing: From Deregulation to Disgrace, exposes that "Across the nation - in tribe after tribe, state after state - the Indian-housing program is riddled with fraud, abuse and mismanagement."[10] The series concludes with a five-point list of recommendations for a more effective tribal-housing program, which include the strict enforcement of rules, a mandate that requires that the bulk of federal funding to be channeled to low-income households that need assistance the most, and the creation of constraints that will prevent disproportionately large expenditures on small families.[11]

Nelson's series was crucial in initiating reform in the management of the tribal housing program.

Additionally, Nelson also co-edited[12] Pulitzer Prize-winning series for The Washington Post, which covered the death of 229 children [13] in the District of Columbia, and for the Los Angeles Times on the death of 45 Marine pilots in Harrier jet accidents.[14]

Selected Awards in Journalism

  • Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, 1997, “Tribal Housing: From Deregulation to Disgrace,” Seattle Times
  • Sidney Hillman Prize for Excellence in Journalism, 2019, "Ambushed at Home," Reuters
  • White House Correspondents’ Association Edgar A. Poe Award, 2019,"Ambushed at Home," Reuters
  • Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award, 2019, "Ambushed at Home," Reuters
  • National Press Club Award for Consumer Journalism, 2019, "Ambushed at Home," Reuters
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science Kavli Science Journalism Gold Award, 2017, “The Uncounted," Reuters
  • SPJ Deadline Club Award for Enterprise Reporting, 2017, “The Uncounted," Reuters
  • National Academies of Sciences Communication Award, 2015, "Water's Edge," Reuters
  • Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award, 2014, "Water's Edge" Reuters
  • National Press Club Award for Consumer Journalism, 2015, "Water's Edge," Reuters
  • Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award, 2001, “Body Hunters,” Washington Post
  • Overseas Press Club of America Award for business reporting, 2001, “Body Hunters,” Washington Post
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science Award, 2000, “Gene Therapy,” Washington Post
  • John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism, 1999, “Trading Away the West,” Seattle Times
  • Women in Communications Clarion Award, 1997, “Tribal Housing: From Deregulation to Disgrace,” Seattle Times
  • National Housing Journalism Award, 1991, “The Slum Brokers,” Chicago Sun-Times

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Recent Publications

Source: "Deborah Nelson", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2022, January 29th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Nelson.

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  1. ^ "Colleges Monitor, Restrict Athletes on Social Media". American Journalism Review.
  2. ^ George Kennedy; Daryl R. Moen (2007). What Good is Journalism?: How Reporters and Editors are Saving America's Way of Life. University of Missouri Press. pp. 126–. ISBN 978-0-8262-1730-1.
  3. ^ Deborah Blum Professor of Journalism University of Wisconsin-Madison; Mary Knudson Professor of Journalism University of Wisconsin-Madison; Robin Marantz Henig Professor of Journalism University of Wisconsin-Madison (27 July 2005). A Field Guide for Science Writers : The Official Guide of the National Association of Science Writers: The Official Guide of the National Association of Science Writers. Oxford University Press. pp. 121–. ISBN 978-0-19-803902-0.
  4. ^ a b Burns, Hilliary. "The 1997 Pulitzer Prize Winners Investigative Reporting". pulitzerprize.org
  5. ^ "Pulitzer-winning women: This is what happens when you win journalism's top prize". BizWomen
  6. ^ McKelvey, Tara (12 December 2008). "Many My Lais". The New York Times.
  7. ^ Jon Marshall (30 January 2011). Watergate's Legacy and the Press: The Investigative Impulse. Northwestern University Press. pp. 163–. ISBN 978-0-8101-2719-7.
  8. ^ Leonard Mogel (2 January 2000). Careers in Communications and Entertainment. Leonard Mogel. pp. 99–. ISBN 978-0-9829596-0-2.
  9. ^ Heinz Dietrich Fischer; Erika J. Fischer (1 January 2002). Complete Biographical Encyclopedia of Pulitzer Prize Winners, 1917-2000: Journalists, Writers and Composers on Their Ways to the Coveted Awards. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 176–. ISBN 978-3-598-30186-5.
  10. ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes".
  11. ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes".
  12. ^ "Chasing the Widow-Maker".
  13. ^ http://www.johntemple.net/2009/07/pulitzers-lost-what-cost-first-in.html, http://www.pulitzer.org/works/2002-Investigative-Reporting
  14. ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes".
  15. ^ "Deborah Nelson | Philip Merrill College of Journalism".
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