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Andy Alexander bio

Published: January 21, 2005
Last Updated: April 24, 2008

Andy Alexander is the Washington bureau chief for Cox Newspapers. He oversees a staff of roughly 30 in Washington as well as domestic and foreign bureaus in London, Jerusalem, Baghdad, Beijing, Mexico City, the Caribbean, New York and the West Coast.

Alexander began his career as a reporter for the Melbourne Herald in Australia, later joining the Dayton Journal Herald where he worked as an investigative reporter and as political writer.

He came to the Cox Washington Bureau in 1976 as the Journal Herald’s correspondent, joined the bureau’s national staff in 1984 and was named foreign editor in 1989. He subsequently became deputy bureau chief and was named bureau chief in 1997.

He has reported from more than 50 countries and covered armed conflicts in Vietnam, Angola, Iran and Iraq.

Alexander has won or shared in the Raymond Clapper award for distinguished Washington correspondence, the Global Media Award, the Thomas L. Stokes award for environmental reporting, the Ohio Associated Press award for investigative reporting (twice), and the Ohio Associated Press award for feature writing. Alexander was a Pulitzer Prize nominating juror in 2003 and 2004.

Born in Rochester, N.Y., he was reared in the small Ohio farm town of Urbana. He is a graduate of Ohio University.