Alex Kellogg is a correspondent on NPR's National Desk who covers diversity-related issues and how these act as social, political and economic forces shaping our country. One focus for Kellogg in this newly created position is on the convergence of ethnicity, race, politics, media and government.
Kellogg came to NPR in late 2010 from The Wall Street Journal. Based in Detroit, he covered Michigan and the auto industry for The Journal. He was part of a team of reporters who won a 2010 New York Press Club award for "Detroit in Decline," a 2009 series focusing on the collapse of the U.S. auto industry into the government's arms. His 2010 work as a general assignment reporter on the decline of the city of Detroit was praised by the Columbia Journalism Review and in 2011 he earned first place feature writing awards from the New York Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Black Journalists.
Kellogg began his career in journalism during a study abroad in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1998, where he landed an internship and later a job as a producer at Reuters. This experience allowed him to travel extensively in East Africa and the Horn as a working journalist long before he finished college.
As a staff reporter or freelance writer Kellogg's work has appeared in print publications such as The Atlanta-Journal Constitution, The Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune,The Chronicle of Higher Education, the Detroit Free Press, The Washington Post, and The Crisis and websites such as BET.com, CNN.com, dailykos.com, the Drudge Report, The Huffington Post, the National Review Online and Yahoo News.
A graduate of Harvard College, Kellogg covered stories across both the United States and Africa before finally receiving his bachelor's degree in 2004. He is the founder of The Deshaun Hill and Harvard Stephens Memorial Scholarship, which is awarded to two African-American undergraduates at Harvard each year.
In addition to his passion for reporting and writing, Kellogg is an avid music collector and a basketball junky. In 2007, a travel essay he wrote was published by the Sierra Club in "A Leaky Tent is a Piece of Paradise," an anthology of young writers.
