Robert Zelnick

Carl Robert Zelnick (August 9, 1940 – September 23, 2019) was an American journalist, author and professor of journalism at the Boston University College of Communication, and winner of two Emmy Awards and two Gavel Awards.

Career Early in his career, Zelnick worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, and the Anchorage Daily News, and was executive editor of the Frost–Nixon interviews.

He was a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

Life Zelnick was convicted in 2013 of misdemeanor negligent motor vehicle homicide and the civil infraction of failure to yield for an incident in October 2011, when he struck and killed a motorcyclist in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

He was of Jewish descent.

Books The Illusion of Net Neutrality: Political Alarmism, Regulatory Creep, and the Real End to Internet Freedom (2013), coauthored with his daughter, Eva Zelnick Israel's Unilateralism: Beyond Gaza (2006) Swing Dance: Justice O'Connor and the Michigan Muddle (2004) Winning Florida: How the Bush Team Fought the Battle (2001) Gore: A Political Life (2000) Backfire: A Reporter's Look at Affirmative Action (1996)