Fellows & Editors
Joshua Benton
- Trip:
- Fellows Fall 2003
- Affiliation:
- Dallas Morning News
- Country:
- Zambia
- Year:
- 2003
Joshua Benton is director of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University. The Lab is an attempt to figure out a productive future for quality journalism online. While an IRP fellow, he worked as a staff writer and columnist for The Dallas Morning News, where he spent seven years. He has reported from ten foreign countries and three times been a finalist for the Livingston Award for International Reporting. He previously worked at The Blade in Toledo. A native of small-town south Louisiana, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Yale University, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Yale Herald.
Stories
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A lesson in dying
LUSAKA, ZAMBIA – His immune system buckled from tuberculosis. His weight slid to 84 pounds. But Ackim Sakala, a man whose life is built around sharing knowledge, knew he had to keep a...
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Joshua Benton: Where the only growth industry is death
PARADISE COMPOUND, LUSAKA, ZAMBIA — It took a moment for Mwiche Simukoko's family to realize she was dead. "There was no big sign," says her aunt, Terry Nkoma, sitting in the dirt...
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Blog excerpt: Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia’s first President
Fall 2003 IRP Fellow Joshua Benton with former Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda. The office of Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia's first president (1964-1991), sits behind cinder block walls and an electric fence on Serval Road,...
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