Alexandra Pelosi began covering politics in Washington, DC for Conus Communications, a television news feed service, in 1993. In 1995, she moved to New York to work for Dateline NBC. In the summer of 1999, NBC News assigned Pelosi to move to Austin, Texas to cover the presidential campaign of George W. Bush. She brought her camcorder along, and made a movie, "Journeys With George," which aired on HBO on Election Night 2002 and received six Emmy nominations. In 2004, HBO ran her second documentary feature-length film, "Diary of a Political Tourist," on the Democratic primary race. Pelosi is the daughter of Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, House Democratic Leader.