Chairman, Department of Journalism;
Professor of Journalism

BS, Cornell University; LLB, University of Virginia Law School. During his twenty-one years with ABC News, Mr. Zelnick covered political and congressional affairs primarily for ABC Morning News, World News Tonight Saturday/Sunday, and This Week. Mr. Zelnick served as the ABC News Pentagon correspondent from 1986 to 1994, as ABC's Tel Aviv correspondent from 1984 to 1986, and as Moscow correspondent from 1982 to 1984. He has won two Emmy Awards and two Gavel Awards for his work. He is widely published in numerous newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals, and is the author of Gore: A Political Life, a biography of Vice President Al Gore, and Backfire, A Reporter's Look at Affirmative Action.