Alex McLoon is a reporter for KING 5 with more than a decade of experience in television. Within weeks of arriving in Seattle, he helped deliver KING’s coverage of the Decker sisters’ deaths in Wenatchee.
Originally from Kansas City, Missouri, Alex got his start producing, directing, and calling high school sports broadcasts for Niles Media Group — airing on the Liberty Public Schools cable channel. He liked it better than his job at Kmart.
At the University of Kansas, he covered Jayhawks men’s basketball and football. By his junior year, he joined KSNT in Topeka as a full- and part-time employee, anchoring, reporting, and recording stories across northeast Kansas. That meant no more Domino’s delivery shifts.
He spent seven years in Omaha, Nebraska, most notably as the senior reporter and an anchor at KETV. There, he covered the arrival of some of the first Covid-19 patients in the U.S. for treatment at Nebraska Medicine, reported on the metro’s 2024 tornado outbreak, and followed politics in the “Blue Dot” and at the country’s only Unicameral legislature.
Outside of work, Alex is a concertgoer and an Eagle Scout. He rediscovered his love for the outdoors exploring Mt. Rainier, Snoqualmie Falls, and the islands around Puget Sound. He looks forward to seeing the orcas.
Email Alex at amcloon@king5.com. He posts on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok.