About Me

Alex Pena is a senior video journalist at The New York Times, focused on breaking and continuing video news coverage.

He comes to The Times from Vice News, where he worked as a producer/shooter on both short- and long-form video stories. Before Vice, Alex spent almost eight years at CBS News, most recently as a producer and digital journalist based in Miami. His team covered breaking news and enterprise throughout the U.S. southeast region, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Previously, Alex worked as a reporter/photographer for Stars and Stripes newspaper based in Kabul, Afghanistan, where he covered the war as an embedded journalist with U.S., Afghan, and coalition forces. He got his start as a freelance journalist based in Nairobi, Kenya.

His work has garnered two Emmy Awards, an Edward R. Murrow Award, and he was part of The New York Times team that won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for his work covering the conflict in Sudan. He is a native of Miami and a graduate of Florida Gulf Coast University.