Alison Starling Biography
Alison Starling is a six-time Emmy Award-winning news anchor and journalist from the United States. She co-anchors WJLA-weekday TV newscasts at 4 p.m., 5 p.m., and 11 p.m.
How old is Alison Starling? – Age
She is 47 years old as of 28 October 2020. She was born in 1973 in the United States of America.
Alison Starling Family – Education
She was born into a military family and spent part of her childhood in the Washington, D.C. metro area, where her father worked for the US Trade Representative. She later worked as a congressional intern in Washington, DC. Starling earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida in 1995. In 1995, she was awarded a Rotary International Cultural Ambassadorial Scholarship to study in Tours, France for six months.
Who is Allison Sterling Married to? Wife
Starling met NBC News correspondent Peter Alexander for the first time in 2001 and they got engaged in August 2011 in France. On Saturday, April 21, 2012, they married atop the Newseum in Washington, DC. The couple has two daughters; Ava Sterling and Emma Sterling.
What is Alison Starling Net Worth?
She has an estimated net worth of $2 Million.
Alison Starling Career
Alison was awarded Emmys for Best Anchor and Continuing Coverage for the 2011 Earthquake in 2012. In 2013, she won for her role in an ABC7 special on Pope Francis, in 2015 for Continuing Coverage of the Baltimore Riots, in 2018 for Continuing Coverage of the Capital Gazette Shooting, and in 2019 for her article on military caregivers. Alison has been with ABC7/WJLA-TV News since January 2004, covering important local and national news events such as Hurricane Isabel in 2003, the Virginia Tech killings in 2007, and the Papal Mass in Washington live from Nationals Park in April 2008. She joined ABC7/WJLA-TV after three years as a reporter and anchor at KIRO-TV in Seattle.
She covered the Seattle earthquake and the Tacoma connection to the D.C.-area shooter case while in the Pacific Northwest. Alison also reported live from Texas on the aftermath of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Alison began her career as a reporter and morning anchor at WDEF in Chattanooga, Tennessee, before moving to Seattle.
Alison volunteers for a number of philanthropic organizations in the metro area, including Breast Cancer Research, the National Foundation for Cancer Research, and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. During the previous ten years, she has had three Little Sisters from Big Brothers Big Sisters of America. Alison is also a member of Big Brothers Big Sisters of the National Capital Area’s Board of Directors. Alison was selected Big Sister of the Year for the National Capital Region in 2009. Alison was designated one of the D.C. area’s emerging stars in local television news by Washingtonian Magazine in June of 2005, and Washingtonian readers selected her one of their favorites in the Best of Local News in 2013.
Alison took over the long-running and popular series “Working Woman” in November 2006, featuring talented, respected women in the Washington area who make a unique contribution to the community. Alison is always on the lookout for fascinating tales from around the DMV, so please send them her way.