Alexandra King is an Emmy award-winning filmmaker and writer living in New York City.

Alex is a supervisor on CNN's original video team, where she leads a team of journalists who produce and report digital-first investigative news features, breaking news and enterprise long-form storytelling.

Her work at CNN spans diverse issues and topics across domestic and international audiences, from immigration to gun violence to abortion access to motherhood.

Alex’s 2020 documentary No Olvidado: Death and Dignity on the US border, which investigated the decades long crisis of migrants who go missing in the US/Mexico borderlands, won an Emmy award for Outstanding Feature Story. The film was also an EPPY finalist for Best Collaborative Investigative/Enterprise Video. In addition she shared an Edward R. Murrow Award in 2016 for CNN’s social media coverage of the presidential election, as well as a 2016 Webby award for events coverage. Alex is a 2019 National Press Foundation fellow of the Paris Accords of Science, with a concentration on the neuroscience of hate, as well as a 2024 Poynter Leadership Academy fellow.

Alex was previously a digital news reporter at the United Nations, where she spearheaded digital and social storytelling, covering everything from human rights abuses to conflict to humanitarian crises and reported from the field in Mozambique, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Uganda and Ethiopia, among others. She reported on slum schools in Maputo, filed mobile video reports as rebels closed in on Goma, reported from DRC hospitals treating victims of rape and told the stories of rehabilitated Rwandan genocide perpetrators in Kigali.

Alex also writes freelance features, essays and profiles on a selected basis. Outlets include The Guardian, Refinery 29, Glamour and Red Magazine, among others. Recent interviewees include Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zadie Smith and Chelsea Clinton. Recent TV and film consulting work includes Everything I Know About Love and Pieces of a Woman.

Along with her husband, Isaac Lyles, Alex is also one half of Lyles and King, a contemporary art gallery in Manhattan's Chinatown neighborhood. Gallery artists are in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and many others.

Alex graduated from University College London with a BA in English Literature and gained her Masters degree at Columbia Journalism School in New York. She also holds a diploma in Broadcast Journalism from City University in London.