Alexander Stockton is a video journalist. He is currently building a new video team at The Atlantic, to help the magazine expand its video offerings and produce impact-driven, original video journalism. Before that, he produced and edited Opinion video at The New York Times, where his work garnered tens of millions of views and won and was nominated for multiple News and Documentary Emmy awards.
In 2021, he was awarded an Emmy for “Heartache in the Hot Zone,” a video dispatch from two New York hospitals overwhelmed by the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2023, he received an Emmy for “The Taliban Promised Them Amnesty. Then They Executed Them,” an investigation into Taliban revenge killings since the U.S.’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. And in 2025, he got his third Emmy for "Two Weeks Inside Gaza's Ruined Hospitals," which followed a doctor on a volunteer mission into the war zone.
Previously, Alex created hybrid-format video journalism for the Graphics team of VICE News Tonight on HBO. He also wrote and directed the indie fiction feature film Transient, about an undocumented immigrant’s search for a place he can call home. Transient had its world premiere in 2016 at the Beverly Hills Film Festival. Alex double-majored in Film Studies and Economics at Dartmouth College and studied abroad at the Screen Academy Scotland.
Get in touch: alexanderstocktonfilms(at)gmail(dot)com