About the Carnegie Seminar Director

DEBORAH NELSON
Carnegie Visiting Professor
J.D., DePaul University College of Law, 1988
B.S., Journalism, Northern Illinois University, 1975
dnelson@jmail.umd.edu
301-405-2888
4115 Journalism Building
Office hours: Wednesdays 9-1 and by appt.

    Deborah Nelson has covered a variety of beats and produced more than two dozen investigative projects at small, medium and large dailies over the past 30 years.  Most recently, she was an investigative reporter and editor in The Los Angeles Times Washington Bureau and, before that, at The Washington Post.  She co-authored a series of articles in August based on declassified U.S. war crimes records from the Vietnam War. http://www.latimes.com/vietnam  
    Her work has won national awards, including the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting. http://www.pulitzer.org/year/1997/investigative-reporting/works/
    She is former president of Investigative Reporters and Editors and on the board of the Fund for Investigative Journalism.  She has a B.S. in journalism and a law degree. She taught investigative reporting as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Maryland for five years, before taking a full-time post at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism in 2006.

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