Len Earl Ackland (born 1944) is a journalist and retired journalism professor from the University of Colorado Boulder.
[1] He graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder with a bachelor's degree in history, and from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies with a Master's degree.
He was a humanitarian worker, RAND researcher and freelance writer during the Vietnam War in 1967-68.
He was a reporter for the Chicago Tribune and the Des Moines Register, where he won The George Polk Award in 1978 for a series on discriminatory mortgage lending, or "redlining."
He was editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists when it won the 1987 National Magazine Award for a special issue on the Chernobyl nuclear accident.