Belle Adler

Belle Adler
Born New York City
Nationality American
Education University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (B.A.)
Stony Brook University
The Calhoun School
Occupation Professor, journalist, film producer, television producer
Employer Northeastern University
Political party Independent

Belle Adler is an associate professor of journalism[1] at Northeastern University School of Journalism. Adler specializes in television news. Before teaching at the university, Adler was a local television news executive where she was an investigative producer and tape editor. She had previously been employed by several broadcasting stations like KGO-TV, WCBS-TV, and KQED and cable stations like CNN, A&E, Discovery Channel, and Animal Planet.

Documentaries

Belle Adler specialized in documentary productions and is credited with producing Murder for Hire for the Discovery Channel; American Dream, American Nightmare for A&E's Investigative Reports, narrated by Bill Kurtis; Operation Animal Shield for Animal Planet and Discovery International, and was research director for Drugs on Public Lands, an A&E production.[2]

Awards and honors

Adler was awarded fellowships and honors with the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, who honored Adler in 2002 with an AOPA award for Best Documentary[3] for "Operation Animal Shield" which documented efforts to catch elephant and rhino poachers in East Africa. She earned a Sidney Hillman Foundation award in 2001 for her documentary "American Dream, American Nightmare"—this report investigated the effects of the 1996 Immigration Reform Acts on legal resident aliens in the United States—resulting in INS reviews of the cases investigated. Adler was a winner and participant of two fellowships: The William Benton Fellowship at the University of Chicago and the Jefferson Fellowship[4] at the East/West Center of the University of Hawaii in Oahu.

References

  1. ↑ "Belle Adler, Associate Professor". Archived from the original on August 24, 2011.
  2. ↑ "Soldiers of Misfortune" "Investigative Reporters & Editors Resource Center".
  3. ↑ Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association "AOPA 2003 journalism award winners" Check |url= value (help).
  4. ↑ East West Center "Jefferson Fellowship Master List" Check |url= value (help) (PDF).


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