Robert Zelnick

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Robert Zelnick
Nationality American
Occupation
Known for Executive editor, Frost-Nixon interviews

Robert Zelnick is an American journalist, author and professor of journalism at the Boston University College of Communication.[1] Zelnick was a correspondent for ABC News for more than twenty years. His assignments included national political and congressional affairs (1994–98), The Pentagon (1986–1994), Israel (1984–86) and Moscow (1982–84).[1] He is currently a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.[2]

Prior to joining ABC News, Zelnick had worked for the Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, and the Anchorage Daily News, and was executive editor of the Frost-Nixon interviews.[1] In the film Frost/Nixon, Zelnick is portrayed by Oliver Platt.

Zelnick is currently charged[3] with misdemeanor negligent motor vehicle homicide and the civil infraction of failure to yield for an incident in October 2011. He is accused of striking and killing a motorcyclist in Plymouth, Mass.

He is opposed to affirmative action.[4]

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Boston University College of Communication Faculty Profile". 
  2. ^ "Hoover Institution Research Fellow: Biography". Hoover Institution. Retrieved 2011-10-27. 
  3. ^ CBS Local article [1]
  4. ^ Carol M. Swain, The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration, Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2002, p. 134

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