Joshua Benton (born 1975) is an American journalist. He is a Senior Writer and the former director of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University, which he founded in 2008 and directed from 2008-2020.Nieman Journalism LabNieman press release
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 awardsPast winners of the Fred M. Hechinger Grand Prize for Distinguished Education Reporting 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.Asimov, Nanette and Todd Wallack. "Stakes too high to just check erasures, experts say", San Francisco Chronicle, May 13, 2007.
While attending Yale University, Benton was editor-in-chief of the student newspaper The Yale Herald. 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.
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