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 400 residents submitted a petition opposing a racetrack proposed in a small town in Massachusetts. -
The letter writing initiative began during the pandemic when visits to the Holyoke Soldiers' Home were limited. -
Polls in Massachusetts close at 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, but some mail-in ballots won't be counted until days later. -
Question 5 asks voters in three Hampshire, Franklin and Worcester districts about adding a fee to fossil fuel products. -
Amherst College and others pay close attention as Supreme Court considers race in college admissionsAmherst College joined thirty two other liberal arts colleges in an amicus brief in support of the defendants, Harvard and the University of North Carolina. -
In 2021 the Amherst, Massachusetts, town council approved placing two million dollars over ten years into an account to help end structural racism and achieve racial equality. -
The recently redrawn Massachusetts House district covers seven communities including Ludlow and Belchertown. -
At a debate, Democrat Tara Jacobs, a school committee member from North Adams, faced off against Republican John Comerford, a retired welfare fraud investigator from Palmer. -
More than 1,000 people have signed a petition calling for the statue outside a souvenir store to be taken down. -
The Massachusetts Restaurant Association won a delay in restrictions approved by voters in 2016.
