About Me

Alex Press is a journalist based in New York City. She covers the labor movement and working-class life in the United States. Her first book, What We Will: The Fight for Control Over Work in America, is forthcoming with Viking. She won the 2023 Bernhardt Labor Journalism Prize.

Her work has appeared in print and online in various publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Jacobin magazine, The Nation, The New Republic, Bookforum, In These Times, and Jewish Currents. She also publishes The Alex Press.

She has hosted several podcasts, including Fragile Juggernaut, Casualties of History, and Primer. She has provided research assistance on several feature documentaries, including Union, which won the Documentary Special Jury Award for the Art of Change at the Sundance Film Festival. She is a co-organizer of Saturdays in the Park, a series of free concerts and community organizing fairs. She was an instructor for The Forge’s Writing for Organizers course.