Alisyn Camerota Biography
Alisyn Camerota is an Emmy-Award nominated journalist and author from the United States of America who is the anchor of morning show ‘New Day’ on CNN. She is both a national and international reporter and for her work, Camerota has received an Emmy Award nomination twice, as of 2020. Aside from anchoring the ‘New Day’ show, Camerota has also anchored other primetime programs that include ‘Tipping Point: Sexual Harassment in America’ and ‘The Hunting Ground: Sexual Assault on Campus.’
Some of the stories that she is known for include reporting on the Paris and Brussels terror attacks, the after-result of Houston’s Hurricane Harvey and the Parkland school shooting. She is also a known critic of the 46th President of the U.S. having held several panels with his supporters.
How old is Alisyn Camerota? – Age
The New Day anchor is 54 years old as of June 21, 2020. She was born in 1966 in Shrewsbury, New Jersey, United States and her birth name is Alisyn Lane Camerota.
Alisyn Camerota Parents – Is Alisyn Camerota Italian?
Camerota is of Italian American heritage. She has not revealed the identity of her parents and siblings.
Who is Alisyn Camerota’s Husband? – Children
She is married to Tim Lewis, a partner at a private equity firm in Connecticut since 2002. The couple has three children; fraternal twin daughters Alessandra Lewis and Francesca Lewis born in 2005 and a son by the name Nathaniel Lewis born in 2007. The family reportedly lives in Westport, Connecticut.
Alisyn Camerota Career
Camerota worked at a variety of different stations before joining Fox, including WHDH in Boston and WTTG in Washington D.C., and for The Most Wanted in America. She worked at Koppel Communications on Ted Koppel’s primetime documentaries as well.
During her time at CNN, Camerota covered foreign and domestic news stories on the ground, including the terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels, the horrific shooting of the church in South Carolina, and the shooting of the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, FL. In addition, her coverage of the Hurricane’s Maria aftermath helped to win CNN and the Edward R. Murrow Award. She was also at the forefront of CNN’s 2016 election coverage, holding news-making interviews with the Democratic and Republican nominees and several of the primary candidates. Camerota has anchored primetime specials outside of her position on New Day including ‘Sexual Assault on Campus,’ a panel discussion on the epidemic of sexual assaults on college campuses, and The Cosby Show: A Legend Under Fire,’ a one-hour interview with the alleged victims of the comedian.
Prior to joining CNN, she began co-hosting America’s News Headquarters with Bill Hemmer on Monday to Friday from 1:00 p.m. on September 30, 2013. – 2:00 p.m. Please ET time slot. Along with Clayton Morris and Dave Briggs, Camerota co-hosted Fox & Friends Weekend. On that program, her final broadcast was September 28, 2013. On Fox & Friends First, she was a co-host.
In October 2007, Camerota began her own blog, In The Greenroom, on the Fox & Friends page on the Fox News Channel website. In November 2007, Fox & Friends introduced an Internet-only series, ‘The After the Show Show featuring Brian Kilmeade, Steve Doocy, and Gretchen Carlson’s Fox & Friends anchors, often along with earlier cable show guests or crew members and a toy monkey at the end of the Internet segment. This is performed live after the conclusion of the main show as it is seen on the cable channel, America’s Newsroom.
What book has Alisyn Camerota written?
Writing is not a major part of Camerota’s career but she has written a novel, ‘Amanda Wakes Up’ that was published in 2017 by Viking. This book is based on the story of a young journalist who gets a spot at a cable news channel during the time of a presidential election race.
Camerota wrote this book with the help of notes that she took during her interviews with presidential candidates in the 2012 election race. At the time, she had 25 years of experience in the news industry and the notes she had, she turned into a book. Her reason for writing the book was her desire to remind her readers of the value of real journalism.
Alisyn Camerota Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $7.5 million as of 2020.
