Robert Zelnick


Carl Robert Zelnick was an American journalist, author and professor of journalism at the Boston University College of Communication, and winner of two Emmy Awards and two Gavel Awards.

Career

Early in his career, Zelnick worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, and the Anchorage Daily News, and was executive editor of the Frost–Nixon interviews.
He was a correspondent for ABC News for more than 20 years. His assignments included national political and congressional affairs, the Pentagon, Israel and Moscow.
In 1998, he began teaching at Boston University, where he chaired the journalism department from 2002 to 2006.
He was a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

Life

Zelnick was convicted in 2013 of misdemeanor negligent motor vehicle homicide and the civil infraction of failure to yield for an incident in October 2011, when he struck and killed a motorcyclist in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Books