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{{short description|American journalist}}
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| 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]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])
| occupation         = [[Radio personality|Radio host]]<br />Book [[author]]<br />[[Television presenter|Television Personality]]<br>[[Television]] [[Journalist]]
| URL                = {{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 (New Jersey)|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 [[U.S. presidential election, 1992|1992 presidential race]]. Her role in MTV's campaign coverage earned her a [[Peabody Award]].

Stewart also 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 (TV series)|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 (show)|48 Hours]]'', and ''[[Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel]]''.<ref name=needtoknow/>

=== 21st century ===
Moving to [[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]], she co-anchored its early morning news program, ''[[ABC World News Now|World News Now]]'' with [[Anderson Cooper]], and also contributed reports to ''[[Good Morning America]]'' and ''[[20/20 (US television series)|20/20 Downtown]]''.<ref name=needtoknow/> She earned an [[Emmy Awards|Emmy Award]] as part of ABC News' coverage of the [[September 11 attacks|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 (TV series)|''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 multi-platform morning drive show, ''[[The Bryant Park Project]]'', which targeted an online audience, 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> 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.<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=[[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]] }}</ref>

On May 7, 2010, she became the co-host of the new show ''[[Need to Know (PBS)|Need to Know]]'' on [[Public Broadcasting Service|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 ''[[PBS NewsHour|NewsHour Weekend]]'' and ''[[Charlie Rose (TV series)|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 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}}

== References ==
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== External links ==
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* [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.
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