Len Ackland
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Len Ackland's Degrees
- PhD Physics University of Colorado Boulder
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Len Earl Ackland 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. 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. Heath is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder.
Len Ackland's Published Works
Published Works
- An unnecessary war (1991) (94)
- Communicating Uncertainty: Media Coverage of New and Controversial Science (2000) (51)
- Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West (1999) (29)
- Assessing the nuclear age : selections from the Bulletin of the atomic scientists (1986) (5)
- Iceland—failure and hope (1986) (2)
- Can Germany Survive Without Nuclear Power? (2009) (2)
- Nuclear waste, secrecy and the mass media (1998) (2)
- The day they almost lost Denver (1999) (2)
- Official secrecy fostered coverup (1985) (2)
- Assessing the nuclear age (1986) (1)
- Why are we still in Vietnam (1970) (1)
- Democracy for Kuwait (1990) (1)
- Rocky Flats: Closing in on Closure (2001) (1)
- The war metaphor (1991) (1)
- Testing — who is cheating whom? (1986) (1)
- New world what (1991) (1)
- Voices of Revolution: The Dissident Press in America / Muckraking! the Journalism That Changed America (2003) (0)
- Who the Hell Will Insure Us (1992) (0)
- Review: Range Wars: The Environmental Contest for White Sands Missile Range by Ryan H. Edgington (2016) (0)
- Reviews (2007) (0)
- Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People BetrayedFriendly Fallout 1953 (2011) (0)
- Checking what he did (1989) (0)
- Myopic arms deals (1990) (0)
- Clear-eyed reassessments (1989) (0)
- Reporting on nuclear weapons of mass destruction (2020) (0)
- Book review: Beverly Ann Deepe Keever, News Zero: The New York Times and the Bomb. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 2004. 374 pp. ISBN 1—56751—282—8 (2007) (0)
- A “peace attack”? (1988) (0)
- The perestroika experiment (1988) (0)
- All the fiction fit to print—or broadcast (1989) (0)
- Lethal peace fallout (1990) (0)
- Open science, open skies (1989) (0)
- A retrospective of the nuclear age (1987) (0)
- Human guinea pigs (1990) (0)
- Playing to win (1988) (0)
- Iraq's apocalypse (1991) (0)
- Bush critics miss the mark (1990) (0)
- The administration's disarray (1987) (0)
- Letters (1977) (0)
- Nuclear power revisited (1990) (0)
- A dump called Rocky Flats (1994) (0)
- How to stop worrying and deal with the bomb (1993) (0)
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