Journalist

Jim Nelson

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Age 60
Birthday March 81963
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City Maryland
Country United States
Profession Journalist

Jim Nelson is a famous Journalist, born on March 8, 1963 in United States. As of December 2022, Jim Nelson’s net worth is $5 Million. He interned at Harper’s Magazine before moving to GQ.

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Jim Nelson Biography

American journalist who became the editor-in-chief of GQ magazine in 2003. Jim Nelson (born March 8, 1963) is an American journalist, known for his tenure as editor-in-chief of the magazine GQ..

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He made the shift to magazines at age thirty, starting with an internship at Harper’s Magazine, from 1994 to 1997 Nelson was an editor at Harper’s Magazine under Lewis Lapham, where he was responsible for the magazine’s Readings section. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Gourmet, and Food & Wine. His own writing for GQ was cited in The Best American Sports Writing in 2001.

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Nelson is the former editor-in-chief of GQ, a position he held from 2003-2018. Nelson joined the magazine as a senior editor in 1997, editing the work of such writers as Andrew Corsello, Elizabeth Gilbert, Charles Bowden, and Michael Paterniti. After working under Art Cooper as an executive editor, Nelson was appointed by Condé Nast to replace him as editor-in-chief in 2003.

Jim Nelson Net Worth

Jim Nelson is one of the richest Journalist & listed on most popular Journalist. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jim Nelson‘s net worth $5 Million.

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He began his career as a television journalist with CNN where he worked as a writer and a producer.

Nelson is the former editor-in-chief of GQ, a position he held from 2003-2018. Nelson joined the magazine as a senior editor in 1997, editing the work of such writers as Andrew Corsello, Elizabeth Gilbert, Charles Bowden, and Michael Paterniti. After working under Art Cooper as an executive editor, Nelson was appointed by Condé Nast to replace him as editor-in-chief in 2003.

In 2016, Nelson launched ‘The Closer with Keith Olbermann,’ a twice-weekly web series offering political commentary on the 2016 election and other timely news topics. After garnering more than 75 million views for ‘The Closer,’ Olbermann returned with a post-election series on GQ.com called ‘The Resistance’ where he continued the conversation about President Trump. The series ended in 2017.

GQ has been nominated for forty-three James Beard Awards and has won for restaurant reviews and critiques, distinguished food writing, writing on wine spirits or beer, and humor. In 2016 The Daily Front Row’s fourth annual Fashion and Media Awards honored Jim Nelson with the Magazine of the Year award for GQ. In 2017 Ad Age named GQ a magazine of the year honoree. Adweek also named GQ “hottest men’s magazine” in 2017.

Who is Jim Nelson dating?

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Over the course of Nelson’s 15 years at the helm, the magazine has been nominated for sixty-four National Magazine Awards and has won for reporting, design, photography, general excellence, the highest honor in the industry, as well as twice in the feature writing category. The November 2017 cover of GQ featuring LeBron James won Best Sports and Fitness cover. The 2017 Men of the Year cover featuring Colin Kaepernick as Citizen of Year won the Reader’s Choice for Most Controversial cover. In 2018, Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah’s feature, A Most American Terrorist: The Making of Dylann Roof, which appeared in the September 2017 issue of GQ, won a Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.

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Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous celebrity born in United States. Jim Nelson celebrates birthday on March 8 of every year.

Additionally, during Nelson’s time at the magazine, a number of GQ stories have become both small and large-scale film productions and TV series, including Concussion starring Will Smith, the Netflix series Last Chance U and the film Only the Brave. In 2017, NBC optioned a sitcom based on GQ editor Dan Riley’s feature, Inside the Church of Chili’s. GQ’s webseries, Most Expensivest, was also sold to Viceland.

Nelson resigned in 2018 and was succeeded by Will Welch.

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