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Bryce Nelson
Bryce Nelson

Bryce Nelson

Professor, USC Annenberg School for Communication

Bryce Nelson studies U.S. newspapers and has a unique vantage point since he has worked for the best of the best.

He was a human behavior writer for the science section of the New York Times, a Washington correspondent and Midwest bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times and a Congressional and foreign affairs reporter for the national staff of the Washington Post. He also served as director and senior adviser for press information for the Christopher Commission, which investigated the Los Angeles Police Department.

Nelson is also an expert on national, Washington and government reporting, as well as journalism ethics. In addition, this former Rhodes Scholar has spent years studying the 19th century American West, including the Lewis and Clark expedition and Mormon history, and is currently researching the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre in Utah.