Alexander Stockton

About

Alexander Stockton is a journalist and filmmaker. He produces and edits Opinion video at The New York Times, where his work has garnered tens of millions of views and has won and been nominated for multiple News and Documentary Emmy awards.In 2021, he was awarded an Emmy for “Heartache in the Hot Zone,” a video dispatch from two New York hospitals overwhelmed by the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2023, he was awarded his second Emmy for “The Taliban Promised Them Amnesty. Then They Executed Them,” an investigation into Taliban revenge killings since the U.S.’s withdrawal from Afghanistan.Previously, Alex created hybrid-format video journalism for the Graphics team of VICE News Tonight on HBO. He also wrote and directed the indie fiction feature film Transient, about an undocumented immigrant’s search for a place he can call home. Transient had its world premiere in 2016 at the Beverly Hills Film Festival. Alex double-majored in Film Studies and Economics at Dartmouth College and studied abroad at the Screen Academy Scotland. He is based in San Francisco.