Yamiche Alcindor Biography
Yamiche Léone Alcindor is well known as Yamiche Alcindor. She is an American journalist and currently the White House correspondent for the PBS NewsHour and a political contributor to NBC News and MSNBC. Before joining PBS, she was a reporter for USA Today and The New York Times. Alcindor writes mainly about politics and social issues.
Yamiche Alcindor Age
Yamiche Léone Alcindor was born on November 1, 1986, in Miami, Florida, U.S. She is 37 years old.
Yamiche Alcindor Height
Height
- Alcindor stands at a height of -5’9″ feet.
Weight
- 55 Kg
Yamiche Alcindor Education
Alcindor earned a bachelor’s degree in English and government with a minor in African-American studies at Georgetown University in 2009. She received a master’s degree in “broadcast news and documentary filmmaking” at New York University in 2015.
Yamiche Alcindor Family
Alcindor was born in Miami, Florida, to Haitian immigrant parents who met while attending Boston College. Alcindor’s mother works as a school social worker, and her father runs a Haiti-based nonprofit that helps people with disabilities. When Alcindor was growing up, the family constantly talked about news and current events.
Yamiche Alcindor Husband
Alcindor is married to her husband Nathaniel Cline. Nathaniel is an award-winning reporter.
Yamiche Alcindor Salary
Alcindor receives an annual salary of $129,374. This is according to PBS correspondent’s salaries.
Yamiche Alcindor Net Worth
Alcindor has an estimated net worth of $1 million U.S dollars. Her career as a journalist is the primary source of his income.
Yamiche Alcindor Career
Alcindor made her television debut as a reporter for Newsday, a newspaper based in Melville, New York for two years. In December 2011, she became a multimedia reporter for USA Today based in New York City. In 2013, She was named “Emerging Journalist of the Year” by the National Association of Black Journalists 2013.
That same year, Alcindor began to contribute to NBC News and MSNBC as a guest. Programs she has appeared on include Morning Joe, The Rachel Maddow Show, PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton, Hardball with Chris Matthews, and Meet the Press.
In November 2015, she left USA Today to work for The New York Times as a national political reporter. In 2016, Alcindor was nominated for a Shorty Award in the Journalist category. The next year, Alcindor won an award in a tribute to journalist Gwen Ifill, who had died in November 2016, at Syracuse University’s Toner Prize ceremony.
Alcindor was number 13 on the 2017 edition of “The Root 100”, an annual list by the magazine The Root of the most influential African Americans between the ages of 25 and 45.
White House Correspondent – PBS NewsHour
Alcindor was named White House correspondent of the PBS NewsHour in January 2018. She replaced John Yang, who was named the NewsHour’s national correspondent. In this position, Alcindor covers the Trump presidency. During the 2020 presidential election season, Alcindor was one of the moderators of the sixth Democratic debate. Erik Wemple of The Washington Post reported President Donald Trump has repeatedly insulted Alcindor at White House press conferences.
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