HI! My name is Alex Harring. I am a business reporter who has done everything from dogged beat reporting in local markets to reporting for some of the biggest news operations in the world.
Before my current role, I covered corporate news for The Wall Street Journal; local business and economic trends for The Detroit News; the biggest stories out of Wall Street and Silicon Valley for NBC News; and breaking and trending news in the Northeast and Midwest US for CNN. I first worked at CNBC as an intern in 2020 covering economic reopening trends and the impact of the virus on the business world. I have experience reporting for print, digital, broadcast and streaming operations doing everything from fast-paced breaking news to deeply sourced scoops and enterprise reporting.
I graduated in 2022 with a degree in English and Political Science from the University of Michigan, where I won the 2021 Lipsey Merit Award for Multimedia Reporting and the Betsy Carter Award, which is awarded annually to an English student who has displayed a lasting commitment to journalism. In 2018, I was selected as the Journalism Education Association's Michigan Journalist of the Year. That year, I also received the "All-MIPA" scholarship for news writing and reporting from the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association. My time at Michigan was defined by The Michigan Daily, the student newspaper and the only daily paper in Washtenaw County. As an editor, I led coverage of a union strike that resulted nearly all undergraduate classes being canceled for a week and a vote of no confidence from faculty in the U-M president (the first of its kind in school history). As a reporter, I told the stories of incoming graduate students who had to defer enrollment due to visa delays and of undocumented students whose immigration status precluded them from receiving in-state tuition despite having lived in the state of Michigan for years. Some of my reporting spotlighted issues that led to policy changes. I broke news of a resident adviser strike, student government impeachment and delay of an off-campus apartment move-in date that left students without housing at the start of the semester. In my final year, I led the paper's Culture, Training & Inclusion team, which aimed to make our staff and reporting more inclusive and representative of the community.
Outside of work, I enjoy watching movies and TV, trying new restaurants and reading Refinery29's Money Diaries. I am a Metro Detroit native living in New York City.
This website houses some of my favorite articles and a copy of my resume. I can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter.
Before my current role, I covered corporate news for The Wall Street Journal; local business and economic trends for The Detroit News; the biggest stories out of Wall Street and Silicon Valley for NBC News; and breaking and trending news in the Northeast and Midwest US for CNN. I first worked at CNBC as an intern in 2020 covering economic reopening trends and the impact of the virus on the business world. I have experience reporting for print, digital, broadcast and streaming operations doing everything from fast-paced breaking news to deeply sourced scoops and enterprise reporting.
I graduated in 2022 with a degree in English and Political Science from the University of Michigan, where I won the 2021 Lipsey Merit Award for Multimedia Reporting and the Betsy Carter Award, which is awarded annually to an English student who has displayed a lasting commitment to journalism. In 2018, I was selected as the Journalism Education Association's Michigan Journalist of the Year. That year, I also received the "All-MIPA" scholarship for news writing and reporting from the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association. My time at Michigan was defined by The Michigan Daily, the student newspaper and the only daily paper in Washtenaw County. As an editor, I led coverage of a union strike that resulted nearly all undergraduate classes being canceled for a week and a vote of no confidence from faculty in the U-M president (the first of its kind in school history). As a reporter, I told the stories of incoming graduate students who had to defer enrollment due to visa delays and of undocumented students whose immigration status precluded them from receiving in-state tuition despite having lived in the state of Michigan for years. Some of my reporting spotlighted issues that led to policy changes. I broke news of a resident adviser strike, student government impeachment and delay of an off-campus apartment move-in date that left students without housing at the start of the semester. In my final year, I led the paper's Culture, Training & Inclusion team, which aimed to make our staff and reporting more inclusive and representative of the community.
Outside of work, I enjoy watching movies and TV, trying new restaurants and reading Refinery29's Money Diaries. I am a Metro Detroit native living in New York City.
This website houses some of my favorite articles and a copy of my resume. I can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter.