Alexander Stockton

Alexander Stockton is a journalist and filmmaker. He produces and edits Opinion video at The New York Times, where his work has garnered tens of millions of views and has won and been 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.