Allison Gilbert
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Allison Gilbert (born 1970) is an American journalist and author. She is the author and co-author of five non-fiction books including the biography with Julia Scheeres of Elsie Robinson, Listen World!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America’s Most-Read Woman.[1]
Career
TV news
Allison started her career in TV news. At CNN, Allison produced TV segments and wrote stories for CNN.com.[2] Before CNN, she was a producer at WABC-TV and an investigative producer at WNBC-TV.[3]
Grief and resilience
Allison is the author of three books on grief and has written for or been featured in many publications including CNN,[4] The Washington Post,[5] Today,[6] and The Atlantic.[7] Allison serves on the Advisory Board of the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors. The Library Journal said Allison’s work offers readers the kind of writing “formerly absent from the literature of grief.”
September 11 attacks
Allison was a journalist covering the September 11 attacks and went on to co-edit Covering Catastrophe: Broadcast Journalists Report September 11, a historical record of how broadcast journalists covered the attacks.[8] Allison is the official narrator of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum’s historical exhibition audio tour and her voice is introduced by Robert De Niro on the museum’s “Witnessing History” tour.[9] She is the co-executive producer of the documentary Reporting 9/11 and Why It Still Matters and host of the companion 20-part documentary series Women Journalists of 9/11: Their Stories, produced in collaboration with the National September 11 Memorial & Museum and Wondrium for the 20th anniversary of 9/11.[10] These projects include interviews with journalists such as Savannah Guthrie, Maggie Haberman, Scott Pelley, Byron Pitts, Dana Bash, and Linda Wertheimer.
Personal life
Allison graduated from Georgetown University and lives outside New York City. She and her husband have two children, a son and a daughter, and a rescue dog named Alabama.
Publications
Books
- Listen, World!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America’s Most-Read Woman with co-author Julia Scheeres (Seal Press: September 2022)
- Passed and Present: Keeping Memories of Loved Ones Alive (Seal Press: 2016)
- Parentless Parents: How the Loss of Our Mothers and Fathers Impacts the Way We Raise Our Children (Hyperion: 2011)
- Always Too Soon: Voices of Support for Those Who Have Lost Both Parents, edited by Christina Baker Kline (Seal Press: 2006)
- Covering Catastrophe: Broadcast Journalists Report September 11, co-edited with Phil Hirshkorn, Melinda Murphy, Mitchell Stephens, and Robyn Walensky; (Bonus Books: 2002)
Select essays and reporting
- The Grief Crisis Is Coming (April 2021) The New York Times[11]
- Why Looking at a Photo Can Ease Loneliness and Grief (November 2016) O, The Oprah Magazine[12]
- Journalist and Survivor: The Rules Blurred on 9/11 (May 2014) CNN.com[13]
References
- ^ "Nonfiction Book Review: Listen, World!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America's Most-Read Woman by Julia Scheeres, Allison Gilbert". Publishers Weekly. 2022-06-01. Retrieved 2022-06-16.
- ^ "We Were Choking on the Same Soot, We Were One With the Story". New Day CNN. May 25, 2014. Retrieved April 13, 2022.
- ^ Oei, Lily (2002-04-22). "WNBC tops N.Y. Emmy race with 9 victories". Variety. Retrieved 2022-03-22.
- ^ "CNN Sunday Morning". CNN. May 13, 2007. Retrieved April 13, 2022.
- ^ Loudin, Amanda (July 15, 2017). "When her daughter died, she turned to exercise to quell her grief". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 13, 2022.
- ^ Zaslow, Alexandra (June 17, 2016). "How I'm keeping my dad's memory alive this Father's Day". Today. Retrieved April 13, 2022.
- ^ Alter, Cathy (June 18, 2011). "What Happens When Parents Have No Parents?". The Atlantic. Retrieved April 13, 2022.
- ^ Maas, Jennifer (2021-08-12). "'Reporting 9/11' Doc, Companion Series on Female Journalists Covering Terrorist Attacks Set at Wondrium (Exclusive)". Retrieved 2022-03-22.
- ^ "Audio Guide | National September 11 Memorial & Museum". www.911memorial.org. Retrieved 2022-03-22.
- ^ Minutaglio, Rose; Feller, Madison (2021-09-01). "'I Wasn't Dressed for War:' Female Reporters on What It Was Like Covering 9/11". ELLE. Retrieved 2022-03-22.
- ^ Gilbert, Allison (April 12, 2021). "The Grief Crisis Is Coming". New York Times. New York Times. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
- ^ Gilbert, Allison. "Why Looking at a Photo Can Ease Loneliness and Grief". Oprah.com. Retrieved 2022-03-22.
- ^ Gilbert, Allison (2014-05-15). "Journalist and survivor: The rules blurred on 9/11". CNN. Retrieved 2022-03-22.