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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The law, which is scheduled to take effect Thursday, requires pigs on farms be provided enough room to turn around and lie down.
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According to one data source, Springfield has had 22 homicides in the city this year.
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Mike and Kitty Burke of Southampton, Massachusetts, say they were turned down as foster parents by the Department of Children and Families because of their beliefs around issues like marriage and sexuality.
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Animal rights activists are urging state Attorney General Andrea Campbell to put the law into effect now.
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A recent engineering study showed the structure needs major attention.
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In May, allegations surfaced in the high school's student newspaper that counselors at the Amherst middle school failed to protect LGBTQ students.
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Western Massachusetts residents grappled with the heat on Friday as temperatures hit the low 90s.
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Roads were heavily damaged in both North Adams and Clarksburg, with the latter experiencing a landslide.
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Eversource wants to build a new gas pipeline between Longmeadow, Massachusetts, and Springfield, Massachusetts, arguing its current system is old and could fail.
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Andrew Leland has been losing his eyesight for more than 20 years. For his new book, he traveled across the U.S. to interview blind artists, vision-impaired producers who add narration to popular TV shows, and blind engineers working on new assistive technology.