Laura J. Nelson
Transportation Reporter, LA Times
- Metro Los Angeles, Transportation
- Los Angeles, CA
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About
Transportation reporter for @latimes, with a side of local politics. Kansan, punster, @USCAnnenberg alum. laura.nelson@latimes.com
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Awards View All Awards →
2012 - Online Feature
Finalist for "Jobless LA," a special section I helped edit about the unemployment crisis in Los Angeles County.
Interview View Full Interview →
Have you ever used a typewriter?
One of my earliest memories of typing is on a typewriter that sat in a corner of my dad's office in the newsroom.
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Want it. Write a lot. Work harder than everybody else. Learn to do a little bit of everything, but focus on building an expertise.
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Definitely the most interesting, architecturally RT @cameronroth Thanks @laura_nelson! Wilshire is definitely a great alternative to the 10.
Dear Los Angeles pastry chefs: We have cronut FOMO. Please, please get your rolling pins in gear. latimes.com/features/food/…
Dear L.A. pastry chefs, please make us a cronut
latimes.com — When New York pastry chef Dominique Ansel created the cronut, a croissant-donut hybrid that looks like a deep fried croissant on steroids, he created a new medical condition: cronut fever. We want that fever and we want it bad. There is a little mayhem in New York City over the cronut.
Gotta love @CurbedLA's sneering commentary. On trains under the Disney Concert Hall: "Monocle drop!" la.curbed.com/archives/2013/…
Audiophiles Freaked Downtown Subway Will Ruin Disney Hall
la.curbed.com — Monocle drop! The Regional Connector subway line could interfere with the high-brow entertainment up above at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, it turns out: "Experts who know the hall's acoustics are worried that the listening experience in the main auditorium could suffer when subway trains begin running 125 feet below the parking garage in 2020," according to the LA Times (the Hall is noted for its excellent acoustics).
RT @nycjim: NYT says Metro-North collision involved eastbound train from New Haven to Manhattan striking W.B. train. nyti.ms/10KJsKi
Metro-North Train Collision in Connecticut
nytimes.com — Two Metro-North Railroad trains collided after a "major derailment" near Fairfield, Conn., on Friday evening, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said, adding that "there are preliminary reports of injuries." At about 6:10 p.m., an eastbound train from New Haven to Manhattan derailed just east of the rail station in Fairfield, the authority said, then struck a westbound train on an adjacent track.
RT @JWalmsleyJourno: #FF @laura_nelson for transpo news, @niallokelly for brilliant design from around the world @DTLARendezvous to find fu…
RT @hfuhrmann: Probably not in the "Bling Ring" press kit: Ace @latimes headline writer Dave Bowman coined the term. twitpic.com/cr8vfz
The term "Bling Ring" emerged from the keyboard of ... on Twitpic
twitpic.com — The term "Bling Ring" emerged from the keyboard of ace @latimes copy editor Dave Bowman into the wider world.
@aaronmedwards Isn't it? We all <3 Dudamel.
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