Alex Richards is a journalism professor at Syracuse University's Newhouse School. He previously worked as a data reporter and editor for the Chicago Tribune, The Chronicle of Higher Education and NerdWallet.
Richards was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2011, and his reporting has been honored with the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting and the Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism, among others. He has been a part of teams that have uncovered political patronage schemes, fraudulent student loan businesses and hidden accidents and injuries in hospitals.