{{short description|American journalist}} {{similar names}} {{Infobox person | name = Alison Stewart | image = Alison Stewart 1.jpg | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1966|7|4}} | birth_place = Glen Ridge, New Jersey, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | education = Brown University (BA) | occupation = Radio host<br />Book author<br />Television Personality<br>Television Journalist | website = {{URL|http://alisonstewart.net/|Official website}} }}
'''Alison Stewart''' (born July 4, 1966) is an American journalist and author. Stewart first gained widespread visibility as a political correspondent for MTV News in the 1990s. She is the host of WNYC's midday show, ''All of It with Alison Stewart''.
== Early life and education== Stewart was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. She is the daughter of the senior vice president for corporate affairs at Squibb Corporation, the pharmaceutical company in Princeton, New Jersey. Her mother taught biology at Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey.<ref name="wedding">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/05/fashion/weddings/05stewart.html?adxnnl=1&ref=weddings&adxnnlx=1162788007-HPmHk4LdJykn0fLUjzHeVg|newspaper=New York Times|title=Alison Stewart and Bill Wolff|date=November 5, 2006}}</ref> She attended Brown University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and American literature. She began her broadcasting career there, where she was the music director for the school's radio station, WBRU.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/articles/2011-03-16/making-a-better-her|publisher=Brown Alumni Monthly|title=Making a Better Her|date=March 16, 2011|access-date=May 1, 2020}}</ref>
== Career == === 20th century === In 1988 Stewart began her career as an assistant at MTV. In 1991, she joined MTV News as a segment producer when she was hired by MTV News Director Linda Corradina. She began reporting and producing during MTV's first "Choose or Lose" campaign, which covered the 1992 presidential race. Her role in MTV's campaign coverage earned her a Peabody Award.
Stewart contributed segments to other MTV News shows in the 1990s, including ''Megadose'' (an alternative health program) and ''MTV News: Unfiltered''. She also hosted specials including ''the Real World Reunion'' in 1995.
Following the 1996 "Choose or Lose" campaign, Stewart left MTV and moved to CBS News in December 1996. She reported for several of the network's news programs, including ''CBS News Sunday Morning'', ''48 Hours'', and ''Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel''.<ref name=needtoknow/>
=== 21st century === Moving to ABC News, she co-anchored its early morning news program, ''World News Now'' with Anderson Cooper, and contributed reports to ''Good Morning America'' and ''20/20 Downtown''.<ref name=needtoknow/> She earned an Emmy Award as part of ABC News's coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
In 2003, Stewart moved from ABC News to MSNBC, where she was a daytime anchor and primary substitute host for ''Countdown with Keith Olbermann'' and ''The Rachel Maddow Show''. She occasionally filled in as a newsreader on NBC's ''Weekend Today''. From May 2006 to April 2007, she hosted a daytime news program on MSNBC, ''The Most with Alison Stewart''.
Stewart joined NPR in May 2007 to host (along with Luke Burbank) a multiplatform morning drive show, ''The Bryant Park Project'', which targeted an online audience of younger listeners and adults ages 25 to 44.<ref>[https://www.npr.org/about/press/2007/042707.stewart.html Alison Stewart and Luke Burbank to host new NPR Morning News Show and 24-hour News Service], npr.org; accessed May 15, 2017.</ref> The program premiered October 1, 2007.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080507040633/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10364918 "Bio: Alison Stewart"], NPR.org; archived May 7, 2008.</ref> In July 2008, NPR canceled the program due to budget constraints. Stewart returned from maternity leave to host the show's last week, July 21 to 25, 2008.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/14/arts/14npr.html|work=The New York Times|title=Public Radio to Cancel a Morning Experiment|author=Elisabeth Jensen|date=July 14, 2008|author-link=Elisabeth Jensen}}</ref>
Stewart also served as a panelist on NPR's ''Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!'' and as a fill-in host of NPR's ''Talk of the Nation'' and ''Weekend Edition''.<ref name=needtoknow>{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/anchors/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100509204220/http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/anchors/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 9, 2010 |title=Alison Stewart |access-date=2017-07-05 |publisher=PBS }}</ref>
On May 7, 2010, she became the co-host of a new show, ''Need to Know'', on PBS.<ref name=REF-NtK>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/arts/television/02know.html|date=April 30, 2010|access-date=May 9, 2010|work=The New York Times|author=Elisabeth Jensen|title=How, Exactly, Do You Follow Bill Moyers?|author-link=Elisabeth Jensen}}</ref> She left the show on September 9, 2011; in her departure announcement, she said she would be finishing a book she had "been working on for years."<ref name="needtoknowleaving">PBS.org, [https://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/the-daily-need/alison-signs-off/11392/ Alison signs off] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170711081637/http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/the-daily-need/alison-signs-off/11392/ |date=2017-07-11 }}, pbs.org, September 9, 2011.</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/anchor-to-leave-pbss-need-to-know/|title=Anchor to Leave PBS's ''Need to Know''|author=Elisabeth Jensen|work=The New York Times|date=August 28, 2011|author-link=Elisabeth Jensen}}</ref>
In late 2011, Stewart returned to CBS News to report a story on cheating on standardized college admissions tests for ''60 Minutes'' that aired on January 1, 2012.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-perfect-score-cheating-on-the-sat/|title=The Perfect Score: Cheating on the SAT|date=January 1, 2012|work=CBS News}}</ref> In 2012, she hosted the first season of the ''TED Radio Hour'', a radio program (with podcast) produced by TED and NPR.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/ted-radio-hour-host-alison-stewart-on-innovation-creativity-and-what-her-ted-talk-would-be-about/2012/05/11/gIQAfi4BIU_blog.html|title='TED Radio Hour' host Alison Stewart on innovation, creativity and what her TED talk would be about|author=Emi Kolawole|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=May 11, 2012}}</ref>
In 2013, her book ''First Class'', a history of Dunbar High School (Washington, D.C.), was published.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/07/31/an-excerpt-from-alison-stewarts-first-class/|title=Morning Joe sits down with Alison Stewart, author of "First Class"|date=July 31, 2013}}</ref> It was named one of the best books of 2013 by ''Mother Jones'' and ''Essence'' magazines. Her second book, ''Junk: Digging Through America's Love Affair with Stuff'', was published in April 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/alison-stewart/junk/|title=Alison Stewart - Junk|website=kirkusreviews.com|access-date=December 30, 2019}}</ref>
Stewart returned to PBS as a special correspondent in 2016 and served as a fill-in anchor for ''NewsHour Weekend'' and ''Charlie Rose''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://charlierose.com/guests/11922|title=Alison Stewart - Charlie Rose|website=CharlieRose.com|access-date=July 5, 2017}}</ref> She continues to contribute to PBS and is also a contributor at ''The Atlantic LIVE.''
In September 2018, Stewart was added to the WNYC lineup hosting a midday show, ''All of It with Alison Stewart''.<ref>{{cite web |title=All Of It |url=https://www.wnyc.org/shows/all-of-it |website=WNYC |access-date=8 February 2021 |language=en |quote=All Of It with Alison Stewart is a live daily conversation about culture and the culture in and around New York City.}}</ref><ref>''[https://www.wnyc.org/story/alison-stewart-will-host-new-weekday-afternoon-program-wnyc Alison Stewart Will Host a New Weekday Afternoon Program on WNYC]'' (WNYC News, July 23, 2018), as accessed September 15, 2018.</ref><ref>''[https://www.wnyc.org/story/all-it-alison-stewart-launching-monday-september-17th "All of It with Alison Stewart" Launching Monday, September 17th]'' (All of It (WNYC), September 10, 2018), as accessed September 15, 2018.</ref> She also is the host of the book club live event series, ''Get Lit With All Of It''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Get Lit with All of It (playlist) |url=https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt2T7s38aOAB798jSlHsyGIUOM4EU8X2O |website=The Greene Space at WNYC and WQXR |publisher=via YouTube |access-date=8 February 2021}}</ref>
== Works == *{{cite book|title=First Class|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vDOpBVMqPZcC|access-date=August 3, 2013|publisher=Chicago Review Press|isbn=978-1-61374-012-5|date=August 2013}} *''[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Junk/1FwgjgEACAAJ Junk: Digging Through America's Love Affair With Stuff]''. Chicago Review Press. April 2016. {{ISBN|978-1-61373-055-3}}.
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == {{Commons category|Alison Stewart}} * [http://alisonstewart.net/ Official website] * [https://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/anchors/ "Biography: Alison Stewart"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808095614/http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/anchors/ |date=2017-08-08 }}, PBS ''Need to Know'' website. {{60 Minutes}} {{NPR}} {{MTV News correspondents}}
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