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Colleen McCain Nelson

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

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]

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

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  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.