Alex French

About

For more than a decade, Alex French has been a journalist, editor, and consultant at national magazines and web projects such as Vanity Fair, Esquire, GQ, Grantland, Wired, The Atlantic, New York, This American Life, Details, and the New York Times Magazine. He is a mainstay on long-form journalism best-of lists. He is well-known for deep, nuanced investigations into misunderstood subcultures and personalities as well as for collaborating with fellow writers, designers, and artists on immersive cultural reads. At GQ, as a staff researcher and reporter, he played a large hand in the creation of service, sports, and entertainment packages. His oral histories of iconic Hollywood films like Boogie Nights, The Right Stuff, and Swingers for Wired and Grantland, as well as his reporting for BuzzFeed’s long reads arm on the Villages (“Club Meds, August 2014), delighted audiences on a viral scale. Alex consistently creates the kind of IP that Hollywood craves. His work has been optioned by HBO, AMC, CBS Studios, Warner Brothers, and Topic Media. His book collaboration “Sneakers'' (Harper Collins, 2018) inspired Lena Waithe to create her 2020 Quibi series, “You Ain’t Got These.” In 2019, Alex’s reporting for the Atlantic on child abuse in Hollywood shook the entertainment industry. Alex is the host of season one of Topic media’s podcast franchise, Imposters (March, 2021). His February 2021 Vanity Fair story on the crisis at Hillsong Church became the underlying IP for FX’s 2023 critically acclaimed four-part unscripted series THE SECRETS OF HILLSONG. In 2023 he also wrote and hosted LET’S START A COUP, a six-part podcast series that charted in the top 10 for iHeart Media. As an editorial and creative consultant Alex guided leadership at Fatherly.com as they transitioned from a service-oriented website about parenting to a profitable mens lifestyle site that enables dads to be their best.