Alden Bourne | New England Public Media

New England Public Media

Alden is a reporter and producer for New England Public Media.

Before 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.