Alex Leff
Senior Editor
GlobalPostAlex Leff was a senior editor at PRI. He has worked at GlobalPost as a correspondent in Costa Rica and as Americas editor.
Alex Leff was a senior editor at PRI based in Washington, DC. He previously worked as GlobalPost's Americas editor and Costa Rica correspondent.
While in Costa Rica, Alex also worked as a Reuters reporter and online editor for The Tico Times.
A Brooklyn native, Alex went global in 2000, living in Spain for seven years. In Barcelona is where he deepened his love for journalism, reporting at a local English-language paper and completing a Barcelona University master's in journalism organized with Columbia University.
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