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.[2] Adler has won two Northern California Emmy’s for her work.[3]

Belle Adler
Born
New York City
Education
Occupation(s)Professor, journalist, film producer, television producer
EmployerNortheastern University
Political partyIndependent

Documentaries

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Belle Adler specialized in documentary productions and is credited with producing Murder for Hire for the Discovery Channel and American Dream, American Nightmare for A&E's Investigative Reports, narrated by Bill Kurtis.[4] In 2002, Adler produced Operation Animal Shield for Animal Planet and Discovery International. Adler said she wanted to "create an educational documentary that gave others the opportunity to see what a huge problem poaching is in other countries."[3] Adler was the research director for Drugs on Public Lands, an A&E production.

Awards and honors

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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[5] for "Operation Animal Shield" which documented efforts to catch elephant and rhino poachers in East Africa.[6] She earned a Sidney Hillman Foundation award in 2001 for her documentary "American Dream, American Nightmare".[7] 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[8] at the East/West Center of the University of Hawaii in Oahu.

References

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  1. ^ "Belle Adler, Associate Professor". Archived from the original on August 24, 2011.
  2. ^ "Belle Adler Biography". www.allamericanspeakers.com. Retrieved March 3, 2023.
  3. ^ a b Unsworth, Emily (October 21, 2003). "Adler previews poaching documentary". The Huntington News. Retrieved March 3, 2023.
  4. ^ "Soldiers of Misfortune" "Investigative Reporters & Editors Resource Center". April 29, 2011.
  5. ^ "AOPA 2003 journalism award winners". Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association. Archived from the original on October 18, 2006.
  6. ^ "TAOPA 2003 Journalism Award Winners Honored". www.aero-news.net. October 31, 2003. Retrieved March 3, 2023.
  7. ^ "The Hillman Prize Previous Honorees". The Sidney Hillman Foundation. Retrieved March 3, 2023.
  8. ^ "Jefferson Fellowship Master List" (PDF). East West Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 12, 2012.
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