Alden Bourne
Before joining New England Public Radio, Alden was a producer for the CBS NEWS program 60 Minutes. In that role, he covered topics ranging from art, music and medicine to business, education, and politics. Working with correspondent Morley Safer, he reported from locations across the United States as well as from India, Costa Rica, Italy, and Iraq.
Alden attended Boston College and received a B.S. in Economics. He later took a year away from CBS to participate in the Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowship at the University of Michigan.
Alden was part of the 60 Minutes team that won a duPont-Columbia University Award for 鈥�60 Minutes: Punishing Saddam,鈥� a report on the impact of U.N. sanctions on the children of Iraq. He was also honored for excellence in coverage of race and ethnicity by the Columbia University School of Journalism for 鈥淰ice Versa,鈥� a story on a white-only scholarship program at an historically black college in Alabama. Alden has been on staff at NEPR since May 2016.
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UMass Amherst officials said the university has experienced a jump in racist occurrences targeting African American and Black students. -
The city of Worcester is launching a program to use social influencers to increase COVID-19 vaccination rates among the city's youth. -
The numbers remain low compared to earlier in the pandemic, but local public health officials are expressing concern about upticks in COVID-19 cases in... -
Vermont hunters who shot a deer last fall can now go online to find out how old the animal was if they submitted one of its teeth to the state. -
The first retail marijuana store east of the Mississippi could open soon in Northampton, Massachusetts.
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The Episcopal Church in the United States will start investing in gun companies. That's after a bishop in western Massachusetts pushed for the move.
