Alisyn Camerota Biography – Alisyn Camerota Wiki
Alisyn Camerota is an American journalist and CNN’s anchor of the morning show New Day. She joined CNN on July 14, 2014, and formerly was at FOX News. She had worked at FOX News for 16 years leaving on March 14, 2014. She has covered stories nationally and internationally and has twice been nominated for an Emmy Award for news reporting. She has covered the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey in Houston, the Paris and Brussels terror attacks, and the Parkland school shooting. She interviewed the Parkland student survivors and representatives of the National Rifle Association in the hours after the shooting. She has held dozens of panels with Donald Trump supporters and is a frequent critic of Trump. She has also covered the Me Too movement.
Outside of her role anchoring New Day, she has been an anchor of a number of primetime specials, including Tipping Point: Sexual Harassment in America and The Hunting Ground: Sexual Assault on Campus. Before she joined CNN, she worked for many years at Fox News, most notably as part of the Fox & Friends franchise and as co-host of Fox and Friends Weekend. Her first novel, Amanda Wakes Up, about an idealistic young journalist who finds herself with a plum spot at a cable news channel during a crazy presidential race was published by Viking in 2017 and was selected by NPR as one of the best books of the year, and by O, The Oprah Magazine as “a must-read.”
Before joining Fox, she worked at a number of different stations, including WHDH in Boston and WTTG in Washington D.C., and for America’s Most Wanted. She also worked on Ted Koppel’s primetime documentaries at Koppel Communications.
She joined FOX News in February 1998 as a correspondent for its Boston bureau, reporting on a number of different stories and contributing to the network’s affiliate service, Fox News Edge. In October 2007, she began a blog on the Fox & Friends page on Fox News Channel’s website called In The Greenroom. In November 2007, Fox & Friends started an Internet-only segment, “The After the Show Show”, which featured Fox & Friends anchors Brian Kilmeade, Steve Doocy, and Gretchen Carlson, sometimes along with earlier guests or crew members from the cable show and a toy monkey at the end of the Internet segment. These videos are available later on the Fox & Friends page on Fox News Channel’s website. She was a co-host of the weekend edition of this program, in addition to regularly appearing on the Friday edition of Fox & Friends 1st.
Camerota started co-hosting America’s News Headquarters with Bill Hemmer on September 30, 2013, in the Monday to Friday 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET time slot. She also co-hosted Fox & Friends Weekend along with Clayton Morris and Dave Briggs. Her final broadcast on that program was on September 28, 2013. She was also a co-host on Fox & Friends First. At the end of the afternoon broadcast on March 14, 2014, the journalist marked the end of her 16-year run with the network in a farewell to her afternoon audience.
On July 14, 2014, CNN and CNN International announced that Camerota had joined the CNN news team to serve as a TV anchor with a time slot to be announced. She co-anchored on CNN’s New Day on the morning of Friday, July 25, 2014, and Monday, August 25, 2014, and in 2015 became a permanent co-anchor of New Day, whose viewership reportedly increased by 9 percent after she was added to the program. On Monday, April 19, 2021, she started co-hosting CNN Newsroom from 2-4 pm with Victor Blackwell.
Camerota wrote Amanda Wakes Up, a novel she started writing while taking notes of her interviews of candidates in the 2012 presidential election. The notes developed into a novel based on her 25 years of working for the news business. She wrote the book with the desire to remind readers of the importance of real journalism. Book reviewer Lincee Ray of the Associated Press wrote that the novel offers “a healthy dose of what it means to weigh ambition against the truth”.
Camerota is briefly portrayed by Tricia Helfer in the movie Bombshell. She graduated from the School of Communication of the American University in Washington, D.C. with a degree in broadcast journalism.
Alisyn Camerota Age
She was born on June 21, 1966, in Shrewsbury, New Jersey, United States.
Alisyn Camerota Husband
She married her husband, Tim Lewis in 2002. They have fraternal twin daughters born in 2005, and a son born in 2007.
Alisyn Camerota Children
Her children are Nathaniel Lewis, Alessandra Lewis, and Francesca Lewis.
Alisyn Camerota Ethnicity
She is of Italian American heritage and a native of Shrewsbury, New Jersey.
Alisyn Camerota Instagram
Her Instagram handle is @alisyncamerota.
