Career
Nelson began her career at the 14,000-circulation daily newspaper in Maryland called the Easton Star Democrat in 1985. After working at other newspapers in New York and Virginia, she served three years as editor and reporter at Newsday in New York. She shared the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 1996 TWA Flight 800 crash. She subsequently joined the Los Angeles Times as a reporter, and following the September 11 attacks went on extended assignment in Iran and Afghanistan.
From 2002 to 2005, she worked as Knight Ridder's Middle East Bureau Chief. Nelson has also worked for The Orange County Register covering California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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