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

Alex is a supervisor on CNN's original video team, where she leads a team of journalists and reports and produces digital-first breaking news, features and enterprise storytelling.

Her work at CNN spans diverse issues and topics across domestic and international audiences, from immigration to gun violence to abortion 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, a 2024 Poynter Women in Leadership Academy fellow and a recipient of the 2024 Cartena Foundation immigration reporting fellowship in El Paso. Most recently, she won an Online News Award for Digital Storytelling for Zaid’s world, an animated short film which told the story of a child’s escape from Gaza.

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. She profiled students of slum schools in Maputo, reported from hospitals treating victims of rape in Goma and told the stories of rehabilitated genocide perpetrators in Kigali, among others.

Alex also writes freelance features, essays and profiles on a selected basis. Outlets include The Guardian, Glamour and Red Magazine. Interviewees have included 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.

She lives in New York City with her husband and two small, wild and delightful daughters.