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.
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More than 110,000 acres of Massachusetts farmland have been converted to other uses in the last couple of decades. -
The towns closest to the reservoir can't access it, and several are now experiencing significant water quality issues. -
Tree House Brewing wants to host up to 5,000 people at its Deerfield location for special events like concerts, instead of the current limit of 1,500. -
Springfield leads the way in western Massachusetts with almost 300 families in the emergency shelters, followed by Holyoke and Chicopee. -
Air Force Staff Sergeant Jake Galliher was killed when the Osprey aircraft he was flying in crashed off the coast of Japan. He was 24 years old and grew up in Pittsfield. -
The town's Community Responders for Equity, Safety and Service, or CRESS, are designed as an alternative to the police in situations that don't involve violence or serious crime. -
Jacob "Jake" Galliher was among eight service members who died last month when an Osprey aircraft crashed during a training mission off southwestern Japan. The crash led the U.S. military to ground its fleet of Ospreys while the investigation into the accident continues.
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The boxes found at various parks and city buildings in Northampton and Greenfield offer doses of naloxone, which can reverse an opiate overdose. -
More than 140 Westover reservists will support five new flying missions of the giant C-5 cargo planes on an ongoing basis. -
The bike-sharing program didn't operate this past year because Bewegen, the Canadian company that ran it, entered bankruptcy proceedings.
