Alex McDaniel
(She/Her)
Chicago
As seen in:
Apple Podcasts,
Medium,
MSN,
Yahoo Entertainment,
For The Win,
TIME,
USA Today,
Yahoo Canada,
Yahoo News UK,
BuzzFeed
and
Covers:
sports, southern culture, politics, general news, digital media, race and gender, pop culture and entertainment
writer, editor, naysayer. the south is home.
Awards
Mississippi Press Association
2013 - Best Sports Feature (1st Place)
Awarded for "One for Amanda," a piece about a Mississippi high school football coach trying to move forward less than a year after the murder of his wife.
Associated Press Managing Editors Award (LA/MS)
2014 - Best Blog (1st Place)
Hearst Journalism Award
2011 - Editorial Writing
The top 10 winners in college opinion writing at the 51st annual William Randolph Hearst Foundation's Journalism Awards Program, in which 110 undergraduate journalism programs at colleges and universities across the nation are eligible to participate.
Society of Professional Journalists Award
2011 - Feature Writing
Third place regional SPJ award for feature stories written in 2010 as editor-in-chief of The Daily Mississippian at Ole Miss