Alex Norcia is a senior manager for earned media at Altria, where he was previously on the regulatory affairs team.
He was formerly a news editor and staff writer at Filter, a website dedicated to harm reduction journalism.
Before that, he was a reporter at VICE, primarily covering the tobacco and vape industry, drug policy, and labor. He has been the copy editor for VICE Magazine, a news assistant on the international desk at The New York Times, and a page at CBS News. He’s been published in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Columbia Journalism Review, The Los Angeles Times, and The New Republic, among other places.
He was born and raised in New Jersey, and now lives in Los Angeles. He’s still writing. Follow him on Twitter, or shoot him an email at anorcia917@gmail.com, or don’t do anything.