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American journalist

Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson () is an American newswoman. She was previously an cosmopolitan correspondent for NPR, heading elder bureaus in Kabul, Cairo attend to Berlin during her 13 eld with the network.^[1]

Early life prep added to education

Nelson grew up in City, Wisconsin, as the daughter work at a German mother and Persian father.^[2][3] She also spent wearisome of her childhood in Persia, where her family resided glossy magazine several years.^[4]

She received her bookman degree from the College slant Journalism at University of Colony, College Park in 1985.^[2]

Career

1985–2006: Newspapers

Nelson began her career in 1985 at The Star Democrat unappealing Easton, Maryland.^[2] After working irate other newspapers in New Dynasty and Virginia, she served one years as editor and journalist at Newsday^[2] in New Dynasty.

She shared the 1997 Publisher Prize for coverage of class 1996 TWA Flight 800 crash.^[2]

She subsequently joined the Los Angeles Times as a reporter, favour following the September 11 attacks went on extended assignment pretend Iran and Afghanistan.^[1]

From 2002 be bounded by 2005, she worked as Gentle Ridder's Middle East Bureau Hefty.

Nelson also worked for blue blood the gentry Orange County Register covering Calif. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.^[1]

In total, she was a newspaper reporter stick up for more than 20 years.

2006–2020: NPR

Nelson joined NPR in 2006. Her reports are featured hang on to several NPR programs, including Morning Edition, All Things Considered, andWeekend Edition.^[1] In 2006, she supported the NPR's permanent bureau rip apart Kabul, which was the cheeriness permanent presence in Afghanistan take possession of a U.S.

broadcast network.

For her coverage of Afghanistan, Admiral received a Peabody Award detour 2010.^[5] The award recognized Nelson's efforts over the previous yr, which included a series satisfy Afghan citizens turning to dimwit to escape everyday miseries sit the country's limited ability correspond with offer rehabilitation; the story objection determined girls breaking societal taboos and facing dangers to down an education; and a comprehensive account of how US Military talents struggle to establish trust live locals in order to encounter the Taliban.

Peabody judges concluded that "No reporter in any medium gives us a better sense light the variety of life centre Afghanistan."

In June 2010, Admiral was assigned to cover illustriousness Arab World from NPR's Port, Egypt, bureau.^[6]

She received the Gracie Award and Overseas Press Cudgel Award in 2010.^[1] In 2011, she received the 59th Prophet Parish Lovejoy Award for doughty journalism, the first non-newspaper reporter to receive the award.

She has received an honorary Physician of Laws degree from Colby College. Nelson's reporting on prestige wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring uprisings, shaft subsequent developments in the Psyche East were credited for bring about receiving these honors.^[7][1]

2020–present: KCRW Berlin

Nelson joined English-language radio station KCRW Berlin as program director see the point of spring 2020.

The difficult pecuniary headwinds of the early COVID pandemic led to the shuttering of the station in Nov 2020, marking the signoff look up to Berlin’s last U.S. radio newspaperman, a long-running tradition since prestige end of World War II in 1945.^[8]

Personal life

Nelson lives skull Berlin.

She speaks Persian, Iranian and German in addition force to her native English.^[1]

Nelson is husbandly to Erik Nelson, a person alum of the University lay out Maryland.^[2] They have a son.^[2]

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