Blayne Alexander is an award-winning American journalist lives in Washington, D.C. Blayne Alexander is a correspondent for NBC News. ^[1]

Blayne Alexander graduated from Duke University with a Bachelor's degree in history.

Since June 2019, Blayne Alexander has been an Atlanta-based journalist for NBC News, revealing for NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, Today, MSNBC, and all NBC News stages. Beforehand, she was a Washington, D.C.- based reporter for NBC News Channel, the partner administration for NBC News.[2]

Prior to joining NBC News Channel in February 2017, she went through six years as a correspondent and anchor for 11Alive News.

As well as mooring end of the week mornings, Alexander shot and altered her own accounts daily.[2]

A four-time Emmy Award candidate, Blayne has headed out the nation over to cover probably the greatest reports in ongoing history, including rehashed outings to Ferguson, Missouri to provide details regarding the outcome of the shooting passing of Michael Brown.

Blayne additionally canvassed the fights in Baltimore following the demise of Freddie Gray and went through days in Houston covering the city's lethal floods in 2015.

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In 2016, Blayne went through almost a month in Rio de Janeiro, giving elite neighborhood inclusion of the Summer Olympic Games for WXIA-TV.

Blayne's other significant tasks incorporate twice covering the Inauguration of President Barack Obama (in 2009 and 2013), revealing from Selma during the 50th commemoration of Bloody Sunday and talking Congressman John Lewis in Washington, D.C. during the great opening festival for the Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture, the lone Atlanta columnist to do so.

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Blayne was awarded the Rising Star Award from the Atlanta Press Club, a recognition given to the city's top journalists under age 30.

Her stories have received multiple awards from both the National Association of Black Journalists and the Atlanta Association of Black Journalists.^[2]

Alexander married James Bailey on October 8, 2016.

The couple met in late 2011 in Atlanta at the annual Mayor's Ball. Alexander was new to the city, having just recently relocated, and a mutual friend of hers and future husband introduced the two.^[4]

In December 2015, James orchestrated a surprise proposal.

Being a frequent public speaker, James told Blayne that he was engaged to speak at a workshop in Charleston, South Carolina. With the help of friends, he created a fake event complete with flyer and email. Blayne was flown up to Charleston to "support the event." James stated that he'd "made a friend who wanted to take the couple out on his boat before the workshop dinner." The reality was that the boat was actually a charter company with all of the crew pretending to be a part of the workshop. After two and a half hours of sailing off the coast of Charleston, the crew captain asked to take a picture of Blayne and James near the sunset. It was at this moment that James admitted the truth of the situation, "I'm sorry, I lied," he said, "there is no speaking engagement – this is our engagement." James dropped to one knee, ring in hand, and asked Blayne to spend the rest of her life with him as husband and wife. Completely shocked, Blayne dissolved into tears and said "yes!"^[4]