Full Nelson.(Deborah Nelson joins Los Angeles Times)(Brief Article)

American Journalism Review,  July, 2001  by Shekhtman, Lonnie

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The Los Angeles Times lures Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Deborah Nelson away from the Washington Post to expand and run its D.C.-based national investigative team. She is adding four new reporters to a group she describes as "already staffed with extraordinary talent."

Though she loved the Post and its commitment to investigative journalism, "L.A. dangled a job that was equally tough to pass up," says Nelson, whose title is investigative editor. L.A. Times Editor John Carroll and Managing Editor Dean Baquet "have a proven commitment to ...

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