Alcindor, Yamiche Léone
1986-present · Contribution: 2010-present
Broadcast journalist; White House correspondent
Served as PBS NewsHour’s White House correspondent from 2018 to 2022, becoming a leading chronicler of the Trump and early Biden presidencies before succeeding her mentor Gwen Ifill, also profiled in this collection, as moderator of PBS’s Washington Week
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Quick facts
- Born
- 1986, Miami, Florida
- Active since
- 2010
- Category
- Press & Photography
- Best known for
- PBS NewsHour White House correspondent and successor to Gwen Ifill on Washington Week
Impact on the world
Alcindor carried a tradition of confrontational, accountability-driven White House reporting into the social-media era, refusing to let a hostile podium silence a direct question and modeling that posture for a generation of younger journalists watching in real time.
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Related visionaries
Ifill, Gwendolyn L.
1955-2016
Became, in 1999, the first African American woman to host a nationally televised U.S. public affairs program, moderating PBS's “Washington Week,” and in 2013 formed the first all-female co-anchor team in network news history alongside Judy Woodruff on the PBS NewsHour
Ryan, April Danielle
1967-present
Served as a White House correspondent for nearly three decades beginning in 1997, becoming the longest-serving Black female reporter in the White House press corps and covering five presidential administrations for American Urban Radio Networks and later theGrio
Hunter-Gault, Charlayne
1942-present
Became, alongside Hamilton Holmes, the first African American student to integrate the University of Georgia in 1961, then built a five-decade journalism career as the New York Times' Harlem bureau chief, a PBS NewsHour national correspondent, and Africa bureau chief for NPR and CNN
Hannah-Jones, Nikole
1976-present
Created The 1619 Project for The New York Times Magazine in 2019, a sweeping reexamination of slavery’s central role in the American founding and its ongoing legacy that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary and expanded into a bestselling book, school curriculum, and Hulu docuseries