Alison Stewart
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Alison Stewart (born July 4, 1966, Glen Ridge, New Jersey) is a television news anchor currently at MSNBC where she hosts The Most with Alison Stewart weekdays at 12pm ET. Stewart first gained widespread visibility as a political correspondent for MTV News in the 1990s.
Stewart began her broadcasting career at Brown University, where she was the music director for the school's radio station, WBRU. After graduating in 1988 with an A.B. in English and American Literature, she went on to anchor news segments for New York City's WHTZ, host PBS' Act Against Racism campaign, and contributed to Swing magazine.
In 1991, Stewart arrived at MTV News as a segment producer. She began on-air reporting during MTV's first "Choose or Lose" segments, which covered the 1992 presidential race. Her coverage earned her a Peabody Award.
Stewart remained at MTV for much of the 1990s, contributing segments to other MTV News shows including Megadose and MTV News: Unfiltered. She also hosted specials such as 1995's the Real World Reunion.
Stewart left MTV and moved to CBS News in December 1996. While there, she reported for several of the network's news programs, including CBS News Sunday Morning, 48 Hours, and Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel. This eventually lead to a stint with ABC News, where she anchored its early morning news program, World News Now; she also contributed reports to Good Morning America and 20/20 Downtown.
In 2003, Stewart switched networks once again, this time from ABC News to MSNBC, where she remains today as a daytime anchor and occasionally fills in as newsreader on NBC's Weekend Today. In 2006, she received her own daytime news show, The Most. Stewart is married to MSNBC Vice President of Programming Bill Wolff [1].
