Peter Alexander

Peter Marvin Alexander is an American journalist and television presenter who currently works for NBC News. He obtained the title of NBC News White House correspondent covering the White House and the President of the United States in December 2012. In October 2018, he was named co-anchor of Today for Saturday episodes. His reports appear across all platforms of NBC News, including NBC Nightly News, Today, Meet the Press, Dateline NBC, MSNBC and NBCNews.com. He shares duties alongside Kristen Welker as the network's co-chief White House correspondent and as co-anchor of Weekend Today, the Saturday edition of Today. His sister Rebecca Alexander is a psychotherapist living in New York City. Early life Alexander was born to a Jewish family in Oakland, California, the son of Terry (née Pink) and David Alexander, an attorney. Alexander is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. Career Since arriving at NBC News in 2004, Alexander has covered many international stories—from Iraq's historic election in 2005 to the death of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, and the tsunami in Indonesia. He has filed reports from Afghanistan, the Galápagos Islands, Gaza Strip, Israel, Laos and Mexico. Alexander's work also includes environmental reporting from the Northwest Passage in the Arctic, and reports on the deeply personal story of his sister, Rebecca, who has Usher Syndrome, type III, a rare genetic disorder that is robbing her of her vision and her hearing.