Joshua Benton (born 1975) is an American journalist and writer. He is director of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University , which he founded in 2008. ^{[1] [2]}

Before moving to Harvard, Benton was an investigative reporter and columnist for The Dallas Morning News and a staff writer for The Toledo Blade . He won numerous national awards ^[3] for his reporting, most notably on education. He wrote a series of stories on cheating on Texas' state test, the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills , which led to state reforms and the permanent closure of the Wilmer-Hutchins Independent School District . ^[4]

He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard, a Pew Fellow in International Journalism at Johns Hopkins University , and a Jefferson Fellow at the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii . At Yale University , he was editor-in-chief of The Yale Herald . ^{[ citation needed ]}

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• Official website