Colleen McCain Nelson

American journalist

Colleen McCain Nelson is an American journalist and editorial writer. She won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing.[1] She is editorial page editor of the Kansas City Star.[2]

Colleen McCain Nelson
Alma mater
OccupationJournalist Edit this on Wikidata
Awards
  • Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing (2010) Edit this on Wikidata

Nelson grew up in Salina, Kansas. She was editor of the Tripodium newspaper at Salina High School South and won a national award for excellence in feature writing in 1991. She studied at the University of Kansas,[3] where she was editor of The University Daily Kansan.[4] She was a reporter for The Wichita Eagle and Fort Worth Star-Telegram.[5] She was columnist for The Dallas Morning News. She was the White House reporter for The Wall Street Journal.[3]

Nelson's husband, Eric, oversees The Kansas City Star's digital news operations.

References

change
  1. "Tod Robberson, Colleen McCain Nelson and William McKenzie of The Dallas Morning News". www.pulitzer.org.
  2. "The Kansas City Star hires Colleen McCain Nelson to lead editorial bo…". archive.vn. 2020-03-11. Archived from the original on 2020-03-11. Retrieved 2020-06-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. 3.0 3.1 "MSSU - Colleen Nelson". www.mssu.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-13.[permanent dead link]
  4. "Colleen McCain Nelson". The Salina Journal. 1991-11-19. p. 7. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
  5. "Colleen McCain Nelson". The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Retrieved 2020-06-13.