Alex Richards is an American journalist, who with Marshall Allen, won the 2011 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. He is a professor of Magazine, News and Digital Journalism at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.
He was a reporter for the Las Vegas Sun. The "Do No Harm" project was based on data mining, and analyzing hospital records turned over to the State of Nevada.
He is a reporter for The Chronicle of Higher Education.