Len Ackland

Len Earl Ackland (born 1944) is a journalist and retired journalism professor from the University of Colorado Boulder. He was founding director of the Center for Environmental Journalism in 1992.[1]

Len Ackland
Born
Len Earl Ackland

1944 (age 76–77)
NationalityAmerican
Education
Occupation
Employer
Writing career
GenreJournalism
Notable workMaking a Real Killing (1999)
Notable awards

He graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder with a bachelor's degree in history, and from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies with a Master's degree. He was a humanitarian worker, RAND researcher and freelance writer during the Vietnam War in 1967-68. He was a reporter for the Chicago Tribune and the Des Moines Register, where he won The George Polk Award in 1978 for a series on discriminatory mortgage lending, or "redlining." He was editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists when it won the 1987 National Magazine Award for a special issue on the Chernobyl nuclear accident. In 1991 he joined the faculty of the University of Colorado Boulder.

Awards
  • 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship [2]
  • 1990 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation research and writing grant
  • 1987 National Magazine Award, as editor
  • 1987 George Polk Award

Works
  • Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West University of New Mexico Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-8263-1877-0; 2002, ISBN 978-0-8263-2798-7
  • Credibility gap: a digest of the Pentagon papers, National Peace Literature Service, 1972
  • "Assessing the Nuclear Age", co-editor, Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, 1986
  • "Why Are We Still in Vietnam", co-editor, Random House, 1970

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-10-13. Retrieved 2010-06-14.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-22. Retrieved 2010-06-14.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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