alison stewart

Many Generation Xers know Alison Stewart from her days on MTV as a pioneer of the network’s critically acclaimed and influential “Choose or Lose” coverage of the 1992 and 1996 Presidential elections. [1]

Alison Stewart has been termed one of a new breed of rising young stars in broadcast journalism. [2]

Alison Stewart has been a correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning since 1998. [3]

She subsequently joined ABC News as anchor of its daily early morning news program, “World News Now,” and was a contributor to “20/20 Downtown” and “Good Morning America.” [1]

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While a student at Brown University, she was music director for WBRU Radio, the nation’s largest commercial college radio station, and anchored news for music station WHTZ Radio New York. [1]

Ironically for someone employed at a virtual arbiter of hepness, Stewart admits to being a self-confessed “nerd ” during her teenage years, overweight, bookish–the only African American female in her graduating class, and forever straightening her corkscrew hair. [2]

Alison Stewart (born July 4, 1966 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey) is an American radio and television journalist. [...] Stewart began her broadcasting career at Brown University, where she was the music director for the school’s radio station, WBRU. [5]

In 2007, she joined NPR as co-host of the morning news show The Bryant Park Project, which concluded broadcasting in July 2008. [1]

In 2003, Stewart switched networks once again, this time from ABC News to MSNBC where she was a daytime anchor and primary substitute host for Countdown with Keith Olbermann. [5]

In 2003, Stewart joined NBC News, where she most recently hosted the daily news program “The Most” on MSNBC, which looked at the day’s most important news on-air and online. [1]

In 1991, Stewart arrived at MTV News as a segment producer when she was hired by MTV News Director Linda Corradina. [5]

Yet fortunately for Stewart, in the early 1990s the once-moribund heavy-metal music outlet was seeking to diversify and modernize itself, and so began introducing feature stories and specials on current events geared toward viewers; these non-video segments eventually grew into a full-fledged news department. [2]

Stewart hosted MTV News Unfiltered, reported for Megadose (1995-96), MTV’s alternative health program, and produced for House of Style (1991-93). [3]

Sources:
[1] Alison Stewart : NPR
[2] Alison Stewart: Biography from Answers.com
[3] Alison Stewart - CBS News
[4] Alison Stewart (II)
[5] Alison Stewart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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