Alex Leff

Alex Leff

Senior Editor

Alex Leff is a senior editor at PRI based in Washington, DC. He previously worked as GlobalPost's Americas editor and Costa Rica correspondent.

While in Costa Rica, Alex also worked as a Reuters reporter and online editor for The Tico Times.

A Brooklyn native, Alex went global in 2000, living in Spain for seven years. In Barcelona is where he deepened his love for journalism, reporting at a local English-language paper and completing a Barcelona University master's in journalism organized with Columbia University.

Aid groups rescue over 1,600 migrants in the Mediterranean in a single day

PRI's The World

May 23, 2017

Updated

05/29/2017 - 9:45am

The World’s Richard Hall reported aboard Save the Children's rescue ship in the Mediterranean. On Tuesday, they saved 635 people — a record for the group's sea rescue operations. Doctors Without Borders rescued another 1,004 people on the same day.

Conflict & Justice

Yemen: We support the US against terrorism. It’s not fair to punish entire countries like criminals.

GlobalPost

January 29, 2017

Yemen had strong words for President Donald Trump this weekend following his new refugee and migrant restrictions.

Conflict & Justice

These are the new instructions the State Department rushed to embassies worldwide

GlobalPost

January 29, 2017

Updated

01/30/2017 - 4:15pm

If the rollout of Friday’s order seemed hasty or disorganized to outsiders, a US government official who spoke to us also perceives a rather chaotic process unfolding — and seems uncertain what will come next.