Yamiche Alcindor is a popular Haitian History reporter who is known as the White House Correspondent for PBSHour. She is also a frequent contributor to NBC and MSNBC. As a journalist, Alcindor has notably collaborated with several media, including the Miami Herald, USA Today, the New York Times and participated in programs such as Meet the Press. His works have earned him numerous accolades, recognitions and awards, including Emerging Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists.
Alcindor is the voice of the black community in the media industry. She is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists.
The biography of Yamiche Alcindor
Born to immigrant parents born in Haiti, she was named Yamiche Léone Alcindor at birth. It has been established that she was born in Miami, South Florida, where she also grew up, but the exact date of her birth is still satisfied. It was in the 80s, but the year in question is not known, although it was placed between 1986 and 1987. The Haitian-American national also did not provide details of her childhood.
The records are sadly blank in her early education, but according to sources, she took her childhood love of writing into publishing, writing poems and short stories. She eventually steered her career into journalism in high school. She interned at the Westside Gazette, a local African-American newspaper, and at the Miami Herald in 2005, where she covered stories about the neighborhoods she grew up in.
Yamiche Alcindor is an alum of Georgetown University where she graduated with a BA in English and Business Administration with a minor in African American Studies in 2009. She joined the African American sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha as a student. Very committed to preparing for her career in journalism, she completed an internship at the Seattle Times in 2006 and returned to the Miami Herald the following year. In her junior year, she interned with the Botswana newspaper Mmegi and then the Washington Post in 2009. She received her Masters in Broadcast and Documentary Reporting in 2015 from New York University.
Career
Yamiche Alcindor, inspired by the African-American journalist Gwen Ifill, wanted to become a civil rights journalist. Since becoming a journalist, she has covered and brought to light many issues affecting African Americans. After graduating, she landed her first full-time job as a reporter at Newsday in Melville, New York, where she worked for two years. Next, she joined USA Today in December 2011 as a multimedia reporter, covering national news such as the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
She left USA Today after four years in 2015 and became a frequent political contributor to NBC News and MSNBC. Alcindor has appeared on such programs as PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton, Hardball with Chris Matthews, and Meet the Press. In November 2015, she joined The New York Times as a political reporter and videographer. In her new base, she covered events such as the presidential campaigns of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders and also produced a documentary titled The Innocence Problem (2015) which tells the story of a man wrongfully convicted of murder.
Alcindor was named the Emerging Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists in 2013. Three years later, she was nominated for a Shorty Award in the Journalist category and went on to win an award at the Toner Ceremony. Prize from Syracuse University, in honor of Ifill the following year. In 2017, The Root magazine ranked her number 13 on their annual list of the 100 most influential African Americans between the ages of 25 and 45.
Yamiche Alcindor became a White House correspondent for the PBS NewsHour in January 2018 and covers the Trump presidency.
Family – Parents, Husband
Little is known about her formative years, but reports reveal that she is of Haitian-American ancestry. She is fluent in Haitian Creole and also has basic skills in French. She credits her authentic Haitian culture with shaping who she is today.
The identity of his parents is still unknown, but it has been established that they are both from Haiti. Her father is from Plaisance and her mother is from Saint-Louis-du-Nord.
On the love front, the White House correspondent married the love of her life, Nathaniel Cline, on March 3, 2018. Cline is also a journalist.