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Allison Gilbert 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 Gilbert started her career in TV news. At CNN, Gilbert 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

Gilbert 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]

September 11 attacks

Gilbert 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] Gilbert 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.

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

References

  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ "We Were Choking on the Same Soot, We Were One With the Story". New Day CNN. May 25, 2014. Retrieved April 13, 2022.
  3. ^ Oei, Lily (2002-04-22). "WNBC tops N.Y. Emmy race with 9 victories". Variety. Retrieved 2022-03-22.
  4. ^ "CNN Sunday Morning". CNN. May 13, 2007. Retrieved April 13, 2022.
  5. ^ Loudin, Amanda (July 15, 2017). "When her daughter died, she turned to exercise to quell her grief". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 13, 2022.
  6. ^ Zaslow, Alexandra (June 17, 2016). "How I'm keeping my dad's memory alive this Father's Day". Today. Retrieved April 13, 2022.
  7. ^ Alter, Cathy (June 18, 2011). "What Happens When Parents Have No Parents?". The Atlantic. Retrieved April 13, 2022.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ "Audio Guide | National September 11 Memorial & Museum". www.911memorial.org. Retrieved 2022-03-22.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ Gilbert, Allison (April 12, 2021). "The Grief Crisis Is Coming". New York Times. New York Times. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
  12. ^ Gilbert, Allison. "Why Looking at a Photo Can Ease Loneliness and Grief". Oprah.com. Retrieved 2022-03-22.
  13. ^ Gilbert, Allison (2014-05-15). "Journalist and survivor: The rules blurred on 9/11". CNN. Retrieved 2022-03-22.
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