Rob Nelson (born June 5, 1978) is an anchor on Morning Rush for

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) which is Scripps Television's all news channel. Previously, he was the weeknight news anchor for

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’s primetime newscast ''

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'' and a weekend morning anchor and weekday reporter at

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Early life

Nelson was raised in Mt Laurel, New Jersey and graduated from the

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Career

After working seven years for the

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newspaper '' The Times-Picayune'', Nelson in June 2007 became a morning anchor for

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in that city. On July 7, 2010, he became co-anchor of the

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overnight news program ''

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'' and that network's '' America This Morning''. In January 2014, Nelson joined New York City's

as co-anchor of the weekend morning newscasts, succeeding

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. On February 24, 2020, he announced he was leaving the station to pursue other opportunities. Nelson subsequently headed to Chicago, where he helped

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launch ''NewsNation'' for its national station WGN America. The program, launched September 2020 was originally three hours but over time the retitled ''NewsNation Prime'' was reduced to one hour as the rebranded NewsNation channel added more opinion and analysis programming. Nelson left NewsNation in August 2021. Nelson signed on to be part of the relaunch of

as it became a broadcast and streaming television news channel in October 2021. In doing so, he rejoined

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who hired him at WABC. He was the 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. anchor of ''Newsy Reports,'' a straight news program, and is based out of

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. In June 2022, he became the co-anchor of Morning Rush with Alex Livingston.

Awards

Nelson has won awards from organizations including the

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, the

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, the

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and the

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