Passing: Journalist Jack Nelson (LA Times)

From The Los Angeles Times:

By Elaine Woo

Jack Nelson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter, author and longtime Washington bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, whose hard-nosed coverage of the civil rights movement in the 1960s and the Watergate scandal in the 1970s helped establish the paper's national reputation, has died. He was 80.

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-jack-nelson22-2009oct22,0,4611751.story

Mr. Nelson, who for years was a familiar face on television news programs like “Washington Week in Review” on PBS, ran the Washington bureau for The Los Angeles Times from 1975 to 1996, directing more than 40 reporters and editors through five administrations. He remained the paper’s chief Washington correspondent until retiring in 2001.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/business/media/22nelson.html?hpw



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