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Introduction :
Alex Seitz-Wald is a political reporter and journalist for MSNBC and NBC News. He is well-known for covering Hilary Clinton’s doomed Presidential campaign in 2016.
Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :
- Alex Seitz-Wald was born on June 1, 1985, in California. His parents, Katherin Seitz and the late Stephen Ward, raised him in a modern Jewish household.
- He now resides in Washington D.C., where he also works and is married to fellow Journalist, Lucia Graves, a writer for The American Guardian.
- The couple had met at a political event and married in June 2016. In mid-2020, the couple welcomed a daughter, Phoebe Baller Seitz. At the time of her birth, the girl weighed 7 lbs, 6 oz. She was named from her grandmothers on both Alex’s and Lucia’s sides.
- Alex is regarded as having a liberal, political mindset and has at times has been accused of having a bias towards Hilary Clinton by fellow journalists.
Education : Qualifications, High School & College Info
- Alex was raised in California in a modern Jewish family, who happily celebrated the traditions of Judaism. He attended a school close to home.
- Moving to Providence in Rhode Island for college, Alex attended Brown University and graduated with a BA in International Relations, also studying for some time in the Spanish city of Barcelona.
Career, Job, Salary and Net Worth :
- Alex began his career by interning with Jim Lehrer at ‘The News Hour’ on PBS.
- Later, he moved to ThinkProgress (dot) Org, the American News website formed by Judd Legum. There he worked as a successful writer and journalist for the website, covering many key political stories.
- Upon leaving ThinkProgress, Alex joined MSNBC as a reporter as well as beginning to feature on NBC News.
- Alex is particularly known for covering Hilary Clinton’s ill-fated Presidential campaign and her subsequent defeat by Republican candidate Donald Trump. Alex worked with Clinton’s team well before the presidential race began.
Interesting Facts and Trivia :
- Alex has quoted that it wasn’t really until his final year of university that he even considered becoming a journalist and that it wasn’t really on his radar until he was almost at the end of his degree.
- Often courting controversy, Alex also came under some scrutiny for his work with Clinton, described as having a pro-bias towards the campaign. The website ‘The Daily Caller’ named him in their ‘7 Reporters Who Should Be Banned In 2016’ list, describing him as whiney-voiced and holier-than-thou. The article also accused that he is not a reporter but only a Clinton supporter.
- Besides political reporting, Alex has also co-founded and edited the Olive & Arrow, a blog on foreign affairs for and by young progressives.
A Seitzwald’s entry refers to Clinton’s campaign as “doomed” and ill-fated. This is bias. Other people on this site worked for other campaigns – Cruz, Huckabee, Romney, Santorum, etc. In each of those entries, the reference is simply that they worked or covered a campaign. Do better.