Robert Zelnick

Professor of Journalism

Robert Zelnick spent 21 years with ABC News. He covered national political and congressional affairs from 1994 to 1998. He served as Pentagon correspondent from 1986 to 1994, covering the end of the Cold War and the first Persian Gulf War. Mr. Zelnick reported from Israel 1984–1986 and from Moscow 1982–1984. Before joining ABC News in 1977, Mr. Zelnick covered the Supreme Court for National Public Radio and the Christian Science Monitor and served as executive editor of the historic Nixon-Frost Interviews, broadcast in 1977. The winner of two Emmy Awards and two Gavel Awards, Mr. Zelnick began his career in 1967 as a freelance writer in Vietnam and worked in Alaska for the Anchorage Daily News in 1968 and 1969. A frequent television analyst and contributor to many newspapers and scholarly journals, Mr. Zelnick is the author of four books, including Gore: A Political Life.