Alex Lederman

Alex Lederman is a multimedia journalist currently working as a Newsgathering Producer for BBC News in Washington. He previously worked as a Video Producer for AFP, a Deputy News Editor and Producer for Al Jazeera English (in both Doha and Washington) and an Associate Producer for Vox’s Netflix docuseries Explained. He has written articles for Foreign Policy, Al Jazeera and other publications from Beirut, Ramallah, Guantanamo Bay and Washington, and has worked on videos for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Netflix, Vox, The Atlantic, ABC News, PBS, Al Jazeera, and AJ+.

Alex's short documentary From Damascus to Chicago aired on the season 30 premiere of POV on PBS, TV's longest running showcase of independent nonfiction film, and was published as an Editor's Pick at The Atlantic. It earned a Hearst Journalism Award for Narrative Multimedia Storytelling, won two SPJ Mark of Excellence Awards, and screened at film festivals across the U.S., including American Documentary Film Festival.

Alex graduated Magna Cum Laude from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism with a double major in journalism and political science and a minor in Middle East and North African studies. He won Medill's Gary Cummings Memorial Award for the school's top broadcast/video journalism student and the history department's Jacob Lassner Prize for Best Undergraduate Essay in Jewish or Islamic Civilization.

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