Len Ackland
Len Ackland is co-director of the Center for Environmental Journalism and an associate professor at the University of Colorado. He worked for more than 20 years as a full-time journalist, including reporting jobs at the Des Moines Register and the Chicago Tribune. He was editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists magazine before joining the University of Colorado faculty as an associate professor in 1991. Among his journalism honors are the George Polk Award and the National Magazine Award. His book, Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West, was published in paperback by the University of New Mexico Press in 2002[1].
Education/early career
Ackland began his journalism career as a free-lance journalist in Vietnam in 1968 after graduating from CU as a history major. He has a master’s degree in international relations from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies[2].
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
As at October 1986, Len Ackland served as Editor on the staff of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists journal.[3]>.
Under his leadership the Bulletin won the National Magazine Award in 1987 for a special issue on the Chernobyl nuclear accident[4].