Alex Chadwick is an independent journalist whose distinctive work makes him one of the most recognized reporters in public radio.

At NPR, he was a co-creator of Morning Edition, the most widely heard news program in public radio, and a host of that program as well as All Things Considered. As chief correspondent for the Radio Expeditions series from NPR and the National Geographic Society, he won the Investigative Reporting Award from the Society of Professional Journalists in 2001 for exposing the story of illegal mining in eastern Congo of coltan, a substance used in high-tech electronics. Other honors include The Overseas Press Club for Outstanding Foreign Reporting (twice) and sharing in a Dupont Award for general excellence to Radio Expeditions. In 2012, he was recognized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science for a special documentary on the anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami at Fukushima, Japan.

He has worked as a writer and feature reporter in network television (CBS, ABC, National Geographic), and for the online political magazine Slate.com, where his popular feature Interviews 50 Cents was named ‘must see’ video by the New York Times. He wrote the 1996 three-hour CBS News television documentary In the Killing Fields of America that won a national Emmy, a Peabody and the Robert F. Kennedy Award for reporting on the disadvantaged.