Alison Stewart

Author

Birthday July 4, 1966

Birth Sign Cancer

Birthplace Glen Ridge, New Jersey, U.S.

Age 57 years old

Nationality United States

#51070 Most Popular

1966

Alison Stewart (born July 4, 1966) is an American journalist and author.

1988

In 1988 Stewart began her career as an assistant at MTV.

1990

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.

Stewart was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey and 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.

Stewart also contributed segments to other MTV News shows in the 1990s including Megadose (an alternative health program) and MTV News: Unfiltered.

1991

In 1991, she joined MTV News as a segment producer when she was hired by MTV News Director Linda Corradina.

1992

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.

1995

She also hosted specials including the Real World Reunion in 1995.

1996

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.

Moving to ABC News, she co-anchored its early morning news program, World News Now with Anderson Cooper, and also contributed reports to Good Morning America and 20/20 Downtown.

She earned an Emmy Award as part of ABC News' coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

2003

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.

2006

From May 2006 to April 2007, she hosted a daytime news program on MSNBC, The Most with Alison Stewart.

2007

Stewart joined NPR in May 2007 to host (along with Luke Burbank) a multi-platform morning drive show, The Bryant Park Project, which targeted an online audience, younger listeners and adults ages 25 to 44.

The program premiered October 1, 2007.

2008

NPR canceled the program due to budget constraints in July 2008.

Stewart returned from maternity leave to host the show's last week, July 21 to 25, 2008.

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.

2010

On May 7, 2010, she became the co-host of the new show Need to Know on PBS.

2011

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."

2012

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.

In 2012, she hosted the first season of the TED Radio Hour, a radio program (with podcast) produced by TED and NPR.

2013

In 2013, her book First Class, a history of Dunbar High School (Washington, D.C.), was published.

It was named one of the best books of 2013 by Mother Jones and Essence magazines.

2016

Her second book, Junk: Digging Through America's Love Affair with Stuff, was published in April 2016.

Stewart returned to PBS as a special correspondent in 2016 and served as a fill-in anchor for NewsHour Weekend and Charlie Rose.

She continues to contribute to PBS and is also a contributor at The Atlantic LIVE.

2018

In September 2018, Stewart was added to the WNYC lineup hosting a midday show, All of It with Alison Stewart.

She is the host of the book club live event series, Get Lit With All Of It.