Alexander
Ward
National Security Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
Alexander Ward is a national security reporter covering the White House and State Department for The Wall Street Journal in Washington.
Alex’s reporting focuses in particular on the inner workings of the National Security Council and how top players in an administration formulate and execute foreign policy.
Alex was previously the White House and national security reporter at Politico, where he was also the first author of its “National Security Daily” newsletter. Before that, he was Vox’s White House reporter covering foreign policy and worked at the Atlantic Council think tank covering national security and military affairs.
Alex has won numerous awards for his reporting and was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist along with Politico colleagues for Supreme Court coverage.
In February 2024, Alex published his first book, “The Internationalists: The Fight to Restore American Foreign Policy after Trump.” He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
