Belle Adler is an associate professor of journalism > Belle Adler "associate professor". {{ cite web}}: Check |url= value ( help)</ref> at Northeastern University in the School of Journalism. Prof. Adler specializes in television news. Her courses include TV News Production. TV News writing, Journalism 3 (Visual journalism), and Interpreting the Day's News. She comes to the School of Journalism after many years of experience in local news where she was an investigative producer and tape editor. Her past employers were KGO-TV, WCBS-TV, and CNN. She also worked as a tape editor at KPIX and tape editor and associate producer at KQED. Prior to her appointment at Northeastern University, she worked at CNN as a producer in the cable network's medical unit where she produced medical stories and was the show producer for a weekly medical show, "Your Health." In addition, she worked as the U.N. producer for CNN during the Gulf War and worked in the San Francisco and New York bureaus as an assignment editor, producer and tape editor. At CNN headquarters in Atlanta, she produces four training videos and instruction booklets for aspiring producers and reporters. Most recently, she produced hour-long documentaries for cable networks such as A&E, Discovery Channel, and Animal Planet.

Documentaries

Adler has produced four documentaries for cable television stations. “Murder for Hire” which aired on Discovery Channel; “American Dream, American Nightmare” for A&E’s Investigative Reports series, narrated by Bill Kurtis; “Operation Animal Shield” for Animal Planet and Discovery International and was the research director for “Drugs on Public Lands” for A&E. She co-produced a documentary for KQED called “Soldiers of Misfortune.” ^[1]

Awards and Honors

Adler was the recipient of a number of awards, fellowships and honors. The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association awarded her their AOPA award for Best Documentary in 2002 ^[2] for “Operation Animal Shield” which documented efforts to catch elephant and rhino poachers in East Africa. She was given 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 review of cases investigated. Adler was a winner and participant of two fellowships: The William Benton Fellowship at the University of Chicago and the Jefferson Fellowship ^[3] at the East/West Center at the University of Hawaii in Oahu.

Professional Organizations

Adler is a member of IRE— Investigative Reporters and Editors and SPJ---the Society of Professional Journalists. She is a past member of AEJMC---Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications.

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Operation Animal Shield Poster