THE 14TH ANNUAL SHORTY AWARDS

The Shorty Awards honor the best of social media and digital. View this season's finalists!
From the 8th Annual Shorty Awards

Yamiche Alcindor

Nominated in Journalist

About Yamiche Alcindor

Named 2013’s Emerging Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists, Yamiche Alcindor reports on national politics, and, in 2014, covered the Ferguson protests from the frontlines, tweeting about getting stung with tear gas. Her social-media coverage moved her from multimedia journalist at USA Today to reporter at The New York Times, where she continues to tweet to her 30k followers about race, guns, and violence in America. Her documentary The Trouble With Innocence (2015)—partially crowdfunded on Indiegogo—followed a wrongfully imprisoned black men trying to rebuild his life with $93. The film premiered at the NYU Documentary Film Festival.

Yamiche Alcindor's best work on social

https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/630498811010490368 https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/630808563905097728 https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/611560961489661952 https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/630390918269521920 https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/665294196446765056