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Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson | International Center for Journalists: Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson (/ s oʊ ˈ r aɪ ə s ɑːr ˈ h ɑː d i /) is an American journalist. She was previously an international correspondent for NPR, heading up bureaus in Kabul, Cairo and Berlin during her 13 years with the network. [1].

Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

American journalist

Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson () is an American reporter. She was previously an international correspondent for NPR, heading up bureaus in Kabul, Cairo and Berlin during her 13 years with the network.[1]

Early life and education

Nelson grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as the daughter of a German mother and Iranian father.[2][3] She also spent some of her childhood in Iran, where her family resided for several years.[4]

She received her undergraduate degree from the College of Journalism at University of Maryland, College Park in [2]

Career

– Newspapers

Nelson began her career in at The Star Democrat in Easton, Maryland.[2] After working at other newspapers in New York and Virginia, she served three years as editor and reporter at Newsday[2] in New York.

She shared the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the TWA Flight crash.[2]

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

From to , she worked as Knight Ridder's Middle East Bureau Principal.

Nelson also worked for the Orange County Register covering California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.[1]

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

– NPR

Nelson joined NPR in Her reports are featured on several NPR programs, including Morning Edition, All Things Considered, andWeekend Edition.[1] In , she founded the NPR's permanent bureau in Kabul, which was the first everlasting presence in Afghanistan for a U.S.

broadcast network.

For her coverage of Afghanistan, Nelson received a Peabody Award in [5] The award recognized Nelson's actions over the previous year, which included a series on Afghan citizens turning to drugs to escape everyday miseries and the country's limited ability to suggest rehabilitation; the story of determined girls breaking societal taboos and facing dangers to pursue an education; and a detailed account of how US Marines battle to establish trust with locals in order to combat the Taliban.

Peabody judges concluded that "No reporter in any medium gives us a better instinct of the variety of experience inside Afghanistan."

In June , Nelson was assigned to cover the Arab World from NPR's Cairo, Egypt, bureau.[6]

She received the Gracie Award and Overseas Force Club Award in [1] In , she received the 59th Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award for courageous journalism, the first non-newspaper journalist to receive the award.

She was previously an international correspondent for NPRheading up bureaus in Kabul, Cairo and Berlin during her 13 years with the network. Nelson grew up in MilwaukeeWisconsinas the daughter of a German mother and Iranian father. She subsequently joined the Los Angeles Times as a reporter, and following the September 11 attacks went on extended assignment in Iran and Afghanistan. Nelson joined NPR in

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

–present: KCRW Berlin

Nelson joined English-language radio station KCRW Berlin as program director in spring The difficult economic headwinds of the early COVID pandemic led to the shuttering of the station in November , marking the signoff of Berlin’s last U.S.

radio broadcaster, a long-running tradition since the terminate of World War II in [8]

Personal life

Nelson lives in Berlin. She speaks Persian, Dari and German in addition to her native English.[1]

Nelson is married to Erik Nelson, a fellow alum of the University of Maryland.[2] They have a son.[2]

References

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    Special correspondent Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson is based in Berlin. InNelson opened NPR's first bureau in Kabul, from where she provided listeners in an in-depth sense of life inside Afghanistan, from the increase in suicide among women in a nation that treats them as second class citizens to the growing interference of Iran and Pakistan in Afghan affairs. She spent three years an editor and reporter for Newsday and was part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for covering the crash of TWA Flight Search Query Show Search.

    Retrieved January 6,

  2. ^ abcdefgFarrell, Liam (June 10, ).

    "Witness to History". Terp Magazine. University of Maryland, College Park. Retrieved January 6, &#; via

  3. ^"NPR correspondent Nelson reports on war, conflict, immigration". The Media School.

    Special correspondent Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson is based in Berlin. InNelson opened NPR's first bureau in Kabul, from where she provided listeners in an in-depth instinct of life inside Afghanistan, from the increase in suicide among women in a country that treats them as second class citizens to the growing interference of Iran and Pakistan in Afghan affairs. She spent three years an editor and whistleblower for Newsday and was part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for covering the crash of TWA Flight Search Query Show Search.

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  4. ^Harbison, Marah (December 4, ). "NPR correspondent Nelson reports on war, conflict, immigration". Indiana University. Retrieved January 6,
  5. ^"69th Annual Peabody Awards". . May
  6. ^"Complete List of Recipients of the 69th Annual Peabody Awards".

    . University of Georgia. Archived from the original on April 3,

  7. ^Collins, Stephen (November 10, ). "Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson: Witness to History" (Fall ).

    Common Basis Berlin. Common Ground. Episode Highway Names Common Ground. And should you, if you live and work in Germany?

    Archived from the original on March 4, Retrieved May 3,

  8. ^"Radio: KCRW Berlin is closing". Berliner Zeitung (in German). Retrieved

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