Alison Stewart Biography

Alison Stewart is an American award-winning journalist and author who got  hired full-time in the year 1995 by then-NBC affiliate WNCN-TV in Raleigh, North Carolina, later moved to San Francisco, California, to work for CNET, covering the high tech sector.

Alison Stewart Age

Stewart was born on July 4th, July,1966, in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, United States of America.

Alison Stewart Career

Hari was hired full-time in the year 1995 by then-NBC affiliate WNCN-TV in Raleigh, North Carolina, later moved to San Francisco, California, to work for CNET, covering the high tech sector. In 2004, he joined ABC News in New York City as a correspondent, Hari became co-anchor, with Taina Hernandez, of World News Now, as well as concurrently co-hosted, with Jake Tapper, the behind-the-scenes podcast ABC News Shuffle.

Miss America 2014 Nina Davuluri and Hari hosted a talk given by Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India, on September 28, the year 2014, at Madison Square Garden in Midtown Manhattan, in front of an audience of over 18,000. This was Modi’s first visit to the United States since Hari had been denied a visa in the year 2005 In early 2009, Hari worked as a correspondent for CBS News’ Dallas bureau

Alison Stewart CBS

However, she later in December 1996, moved from MTV to CBS News, where she reported for various network news programs, including CBS News Sunday Morning, 48 Hours, and Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel. From 2000-2002, she worked at ABC News’ “World News Now”, with Anderson Cooper, reporting from the World Trade Center on 9/11 and received an Emmy as part of the network’s coverage of the terrorist attacks.

However, she returned back to CBS News in late 2011and reported a story for 60 Minutes, that aired on January 1, 2012. Moreover, she also served as a contributor to “20/20 Downtown” and “Good Morning America.” She then moved from ABC to MSNBC where she was a daytime anchor for The Most with Alison Stewart and a primary substitute host for Countdown with Keith Olbermann and The Rachel Maddow Show.

Alison Stewart NPR

She then joined NPR in 2007, where she hosted along with Luke Burbank, a morning drive show called The Bryant Park Project the premiered on October 1, 2007, and canceled effective July 25, 2008, after she returned from maternity leave. The show targeted between ages 25 and 44.

Stewart has also served as a panelist on NPR’s Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! and served as fill-in a host of NPR’s Talk of the Nation and Weekend Edition. From NPR, she went to work at PBS and became the co-host of the new show, Need to Know in May 7, 2010. However, in September that year, she announced that she was to depart from the show to go and work to finish a book that she had “been working on for years”.

In 2012, she hosted her debut season of the TED Radio Hour, a radio program produced by TED and NPR. Stewart returned to PBS as a special correspondent and as a fill-in anchor for NewsHour Weekend and Charlie Rose.

Alison Stewart Books

As for her writing career, Stewart published her book First Class, a history of Dunbar High School in 2013, and was named 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.

Alison Stewart Net Worth

Stewart has an estimated net worth of about 3 million USD.

Alison Stewart Family

Alison is the daughter of Carol Stewart and Joseph T. Stewart Jr. Her retired father was the senior vice president for corporate affairs at Squibb Corporation, the pharmaceutical company in Princeton New Jersey. Her retired mother also was a Biology teacher at Columbia High School, Maplewood, New Jersey

Alison Stewart Husband

Alison currently shares a blissful relationship with her longtime boyfriend, Bill Wolff, MSNBC Vice President of Programming. The couple tied the knot in November 2006, and together they are blessed with one child, a son, Isaac Stewart Wolff (b. May 5th, 2008).

Alison Stewart Education

Alison is a graduate of Brown University, where she served on The Board of Trustees of the Corporation of Brown University, from 2013 to 2015. She also started her broadcasting career there, where she was the music director for the school’s radio station, WBRU. Upon her graduation, she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and American literaturE. In 2014, she was awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Bloomfield College.

Alison Stewart Achievement

Alison started her career as an assistant at MTV in 1988, and in 1991, she joined MTV News as a segment producer when she was hired by MTV News Director Linda Corradina. Later Stewart started reporting and producing during MTV’s first “Choice or Lose” campaign, which covered the 1992 presidential race, which earned her Peabody Award.
Stewart remained at MTV for much of the 1990s, contributing segments to other station’s shows including Megadose and MTV News: Unfiltered, where she reported from Cuba and Africa. She also Hosted specials including the Real World Reunion of 1995.