Alex Kingsbury

Associate Editor

Expertise: National security | Iraq | Cold War history | Homeland security | Higher education policy | College admissions

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Background: Alex Kingsbury, an associate editor in the Nation & World section, covers national and international news with a focus on homeland security. Kingsbury has written recent cover stories about the Iraq war, college accountability, and World War II. He writes often about the war in Iraq, after spending time in the country in 2007 and 2008. His investigative stories include a piece on customs officials seizing laptops at airports, a look at the impact of military pay errors, and a data-driven exposé on the gender gap in college admissions. Kingsbury's writing has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post Express, National Geographic Traveler, and the Dallas Morning News, and has been distributed by the New York Times. He has written for the Watchdog Project, an initiative of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, and worked as a project researcher and production assistant at New York City Public Radio from 2000 to 2003. Kingsbury received a bachelor’s in history with a minor in English in 2003 from George Washington University and a master’s in journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2004.

Media appearances: Kingsbury frequently appears on national television, including NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, CBS’s Up to the Minute, CNN’s American Morning, CNN Headline News, CNN Newsroom, C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, Fox News Channel’s Studio B, Fox Business Network, and Voice of America’s On the Line, as well as Washington, D.C., network affiliates, including WUSA-TV’s 9 News Now and WJLA-TV’s Capital Sunday. His radio interviews include National Public Radio’s Day to Day and All Things Considered, and Public Radio International’s Fair Game, as well as major metro radio stations across the country.