Mark Nykanen

Mark Nykanen (1951 – September 16, 2022) was an American novelist and journalist. Nykanen began his career as a journalist for ''New Times Weekly'' in Phoenix, before becoming a news director at KDKB radio and news anchor for Arizona PBS. He then received four Emmy awards for his work as an on-air correspondent at ''NBC News''; an Edgar Allan Poe Award for writing the NBC documentary ''Silent Shame: The Sexual Abuse of Children''; and shared a Dupont-Columbia Award for Investigative Journalism. After NBC, Nykanen served as the Press Secretary for California Governor Jerry Brown’s 1992 campaign for the Democratic nomination for President. He later became an author, publishing five novels under his own name and two under the pseudonym James Jaros. Provided by Wikipedia