Jonathan Alter (born October 6, 1957) is an American journalist, best-selling author, and television producer who was a
columnist and senior
editor for
Newsweek magazine from 1983 until 2011, and has written three
New York Times best-selling books about American presidents. He is a contributing
correspondent to
NBC News, where since 1996 he has appeared on
NBC,
MSNBC, and
CNBC. Alter was one of the first magazine or newspaper reporters to appear on MSNBC. When the shows were on the air, he could often be heard on
Imus in the Morning and
The Al Franken Show on
Air America Radio. Alter is currently an executive producer on the Amazon Studio's production
Alpha House, which stars
John Goodman,
Mark Consuelos,
Clark Johnson, and
Matt Malloy.