Alex Kingsbury is a writer, radio producer , and photographer. He’s currently a senior associate producer for WBUR’s Radio Boston.
From 2011 to 2012, he was a senior associate producer for the NPR show On Point with Tom Ashbrook.
From 2004 to 2011 he worked for U.S. News & World Report on various beats including higher education, the war in Iraq, the intelligence community, and national security. In 2011, he was also the News Editor for World War II magazine.
His cover stories for U.S. News focused on topics including the Iraq War, higher education, trends in E-learning, and World War II history. He traveled to Iraq three times for reporting assignments in 2007 and 2008.
Kingsbury has appeared frequently on national television and radio, including The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, and various public radio programs, including The Diane Rehm Show, All Things Considered, and Day to Day. For several years, he appeared every Sunday afternoon on Washington’s WTOP radio in a regular segment about national security news.
His articles have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post Express, National Geographic Traveler, the Dallas Morning News, and been distributed by the New York Times and Congressional Quarterly. He has also written for the Watchdog Project, an initiative of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
His photos have been published in a variety of different publications, and a few were recently included in the war photography exhibit “Conflict Zone.”
Kingsbury holds a bachelor’s in history from George Washington University and a Master’s in journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. A native of Maine, he now lives and works in Boston, Mass.
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