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.