Joshua Benton founded Nieman Lab in 2008 and served as its director until 2020; he is now the Lab’s senior writer. Before spending a year at Harvard as a 2008 Nieman Fellow, he spent a decade in newspapers, mostly at The Dallas Morning News. His reports on cheating on standardized tests in the Texas public schools led to the permanent shutdown of a school district and won the Philip Meyer Journalism Award from Investigative Reporters and Editors. He has reported from a dozen foreign countries, been a Pew Fellow in International Journalism, and three times been a finalist for the Livingston Award for International Reporting. Before Dallas, he was a reporter and occasional rock critic for The Toledo Blade. He wrote his first HTML in January 1994.
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Benton, Joshua. "The Baltimore Sun explores the question of whether there can be a worse newspaper owner than Alden Global Capital." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 16 Jan. 2024. Web. 14 Mar. 2024.
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Benton, J. (2024, Jan. 16). The Baltimore Sun explores the question of whether there can be a worse newspaper owner than Alden Global Capital. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved March 14, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/01/the-baltimore-sun-explores-the-question-of-whether-there-can-be-a-worse-newspaper-owner-than-alden-global-capital/
Chicago
Benton, Joshua. "The Baltimore Sun explores the question of whether there can be a worse newspaper owner than Alden Global Capital." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified January 16, 2024. Accessed March 14, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/01/the-baltimore-sun-explores-the-question-of-whether-there-can-be-a-worse-newspaper-owner-than-alden-global-capital/.
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