Alexandra Peers

Alexandra Peers

Alexandra Peers was a founding editor, and later Features Editor, of The Wall Street Journal's Weekend section, overseeing a wide-ranging expansion of the newspaper's arts and culture, Hollywood, travel and food reporting. Prof. Peers has served on the White House Council on Culture and Diplomacy and writes often for New York Magazine, the Journal and The New York Times. Articles she has edited or written have won the University of Missouri School of Journalism Award, Lifestyle Writing; the Atrium Award; and the Association of Real Estate Editors Awards for Excellence. She has made regular appareances on NBC and has spoken at the NEA, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Smithsonian. She was the first female reporter to cover the Olympics for the Wall Street Journal.