Joshua Benton (born 1975) is an American journalist and writer. He is director of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University, which he founded in 2008. [1] [2]
Before moving to Harvard, Benton was an investigative reporter and columnist for The Dallas Morning News and a staff writer for The Toledo Blade. He won numerous national awards [3] for his reporting, most notably on education. He wrote a series of stories on cheating on Texas' state test, the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills, which led to state reforms and the permanent closure of the Wilmer-Hutchins Independent School District. [4]
He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard, a Pew Fellow in International Journalism at Johns Hopkins University, and a Jefferson Fellow at the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii. At Yale University, he was editor-in-chief of The Yale Herald.[ citation needed]
References
- ^ Nieman Journalism Lab
- ^ Nieman press release Archived 2010-07-02 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Past winners Archived 2010-11-06 at the Wayback Machine of the Fred M. Hechinger Grand Prize for Distinguished Education Reporting
- ^ Asimov, Nanette and Todd Wallack. "Stakes too high to just check erasures, experts say", San Francisco Chronicle, May 13, 2007.
