Alden Bourne
Reporter/ProducerBefore joining New England Public Media, 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 “60 Minutes: Punishing Saddam,” 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 “Vice Versa,” a story on a white-only scholarship program at an historically black college in Alabama. Alden has been on staff at NEPM since May 2016.
He can be reached at alden_bourne [at] nepm.org.
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Since early March, state police have had to answer calls in Greenfield, Mass., between 3:00 and 7:00 a.m. -
An official in Windsor, Massachusetts, said the town got three and a half feet of snow in some places.
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State Senate President Karen Spilka said she thought the service could help alleviate labor shortages being felt across the state.
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One of the key tasks for whoever fills the rural affairs job will be to review all Massachusetts grant opportunities to ensure that barriers for rural and small towns are limited.
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UMass officials say many students were seen carrying plastic gallon containers believed to be filled with a potent mix of water, alcohol, and flavoring.
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The employees who would be removed from the UMass Amherst union system work for the university's advancement office.
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John Olver represented western and central Massachusetts in Congress for more than two decades and died late last week.
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A commission will study past and current harms to Black community members and propose ways to make reparations.
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Animal advocates in Massachusetts said a rescue organization in New York State was willing to take the dog and work with it.
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The donated goods will be driven to the Turkish Consulate in Boston then put on a cargo plane for Turkey.
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