Robert Nelson, a veteran reporter for the Phoenix New Times newsweekly and a former Omaha World-Herald reporter, is the newspaper's new columnist.Nelson fills the vacancy created in June by Rainbow Rowell, who left the World-Herald after nine years to take a job at Bailey Lauerman advertising agency in Lincoln.
Nelson is a Falls City, Neb., native and University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduate who previously spent six years at the World-Herald. He is a Thurgood Marshall Journalism Award winner, a two-time winner of Arizona's John Kolbe Government and Politics Award and a two-time finalist for Arizona Journalist of the Year.
As recently as last month, he told Laurie Fagan of the San Tan Sun News that he had no intention of leaving the New Times. He is the author of "Early Yuma," a photographic history that pays tribute to the first residents of the Southwest Arizona town.
Nelson and his wife, Denise, have three sons. She is a wastewater permit writer with the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality.
3 comments:
Bob Wilson. Even his name screams: "I'M A REPUBLICAN WHITE GUY WHO LIKES APPLE
PIE, MANHEIM STEAMROLLER AND NEBRASKA FURNITURE MART AND I'M GOING TO WRITE ABOUT SAID LIKES."
The name's Robert Nelson ... not Bob Wilson. But you're right on about everything else.
He may be Wonder Bread with extra mayo, but I'll bet he is better than Rainbow Rowell. When I went to the U, she wrote for the Daily Nebraskan. Really bad stuff, but, giving her the benefit of the doubt, I figured she is still learning; being a student and all.
Fast forward three years; Rainbow gets a job at the World Herald, and her columns....just as banal and worthless as they were in college.
Now, she works for an ad agency? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
*GASP*
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