21 Facts About Yamiche Alcindor

Yamiche Leone Alcindor is an American journalist who is a Washington correspondent for NBC News.

Yamiche Alcindor earned a bachelor's degree in English and government with a minor in African-American studies at Georgetown University in 2009.

Yamiche Alcindor aspired to become a civil rights journalist, and was inspired by African-American journalist Gwen Ifill and contemporary newspaper reporting surrounding Emmett Till.

In 2015, Alcindor received a master's degree in "broadcast news and documentary filmmaking" at New York University.

Yamiche Alcindor was employed there for two years covering, among other things, the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

Yamiche Alcindor became a multimedia reporter for USA Today in December 2011 to cover national breaking news.

In 2013, Yamiche Alcindor began to contribute to NBC News and MSNBC as a guest.

Yamiche Alcindor left USA Today to work for The New York Times as a national political reporter in November 2015.

At The New York Times, Yamiche Alcindor covered the presidential campaigns of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.

Yamiche Alcindor produced a documentary called The Trouble with Innocence about a man who was wrongly convicted of murder.

Yamiche Alcindor appeared in the 2018 television series The Fourth Estate about Times staff covering the first 100 days of the Trump presidency.

In January 2018, Yamiche Alcindor was named White House correspondent of the PBS NewsHour, replacing John Yang, who was named the NewsHour's national correspondent.

Yamiche Alcindor received the 2020 Aldo Beckman Award for Overall Excellence in White House Coverage from the White House Correspondents' Association.

In May 2021, Yamiche Alcindor became the new moderator of Washington Week.

In January 2022, Yamiche Alcindor left PBS NewsHour and, in March 2022, began work as a Washington correspondent for NBC News.

On February 24,2023, Yamiche Alcindor made her last appearance moderating Washington Week, announcing that she intends to spend more time fulfilling her duties at NBC and writing her memoir.

Yamiche Alcindor was named "Emerging Journalist of the Year" by the National Association of Black Journalists in 2013.

The next year, Yamiche Alcindor won an award in a tribute to journalist Gwen Ifill, who had died in November 2016, at the Syracuse University's Toner Prize ceremony.

Yamiche Alcindor was number 13 on the 2017 edition of "The Root 100", an annual list by the magazine The Root of the most influential African Americans between the ages of 25 and 45.

Yamiche Alcindor was number 5 on the 2020 edition of "The Root 100".

Yamiche Alcindor is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists.