Julia Allison
Encyclopedia
Julia Allison is an American journalist
, television commentator, and co-creator of lifecasting
portal NonSociety.com. A Georgetown University alumna, Allison is originally from Wilmette
, a northern suburb of Chicago.
Upon graduating from college, she moved to New York and began working as a columnist for amNewYork, after which she became editor-at-large for Star
magazine. In 2007, she went on to join Time Out New York as a columnist, a position held until Summer 2009. Her freelance writing has featured in numerous magazines including Cosmopolitan
and Men's Health
.
She has appeared as a guest commentator on television networks such as MSNBC
, Fox News
, plus Headline News, CNN
, and MTV
, and co-hosts New York Nonstop
lifestyle show TMI Weekly.
As of 2009, her work includes speaking engagements on new media and marketing, as well as assisting various companies as brand spokesperson.
, majoring in political science. While in college, she penned a dating column for the campus newspaper, The Hoya
. During her studies she worked as a legislative correspondent for Illinois
Republican
congressman Mark Kirk
in the 107th Congress, later, during the 2004 election
, contributing political commentary for Comcast TV. In 2004, Allison graduated from Georgetown University with a Political Science degree.
, Maxim
, New York
, Teen Vogue
, Men's Health, Seventeen
, and Capitol File. She also did party coverage for the Huffington Post.
Allison's public speaking focuses on new media and marketing; engagements include DLD (Digital, Lifestyle, Design) conference in Munich, at MIT
and, in fall 2009 at Wharton
business school on women entrepreneurs. Additionally, she works with various brands, including Sony through to early 2010, as a spokesperson.
As a television pundit, Allison has made occasional appearances on Fox Business's Happy Hour
and Fox News' Red Eye
show, plus regular appearances as a commentator on Fox News segments, CNN's Reliable Sources
, and Headline News' Showbiz Tonight
and Glenn Beck
news-commentary show. Other appearances include E!
, MSNBC's Scarborough Country
; Montel Williams
, NY Residential
, and MTV's It's On with Alexa Chung
. Locally, media appearances include New York City's Fox 5, and Sirius radio. She co-hosts NBC New York Nonstop
's TMI Weekly, joint owned by Next New Networks. Allison was also pictured by renowned photographer Platon
on Wired
magazine's cover in August, 2008.
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
, television commentator, and co-creator of lifecasting
Lifecasting (video stream)
Lifecasting is a continual broadcast of events in a person's life through digital media. Typically, lifecasting is transmitted through the medium of the Internet and can involve wearable technology...
portal NonSociety.com. A Georgetown University alumna, Allison is originally from Wilmette
Wilmette, Illinois
Wilmette is a village in New Trier Township, Cook County, Illinois, United States. It is located north of Chicago's downtown district and has a population of 27,651. Wilmette is considered a bedroom community in the North Shore district...
, a northern suburb of Chicago.
Upon graduating from college, she moved to New York and began working as a columnist for amNewYork, after which she became editor-at-large for Star
Star (magazine)
Star is an American celebrity tabloid magazine.-History:Star was founded by Rupert Murdoch in 1974 as competition to the tabloid National Enquirer with its headquarters in New York City. In the late 1980s it moved its offices to Tarrytown, NY and in 1990 Murdoch sold the magazine to The Enquirers...
magazine. In 2007, she went on to join Time Out New York as a columnist, a position held until Summer 2009. Her freelance writing has featured in numerous magazines including Cosmopolitan
Cosmopolitan (magazine)
Cosmopolitan is an international magazine for women. It was first published in 1886 in the United States as a family magazine, was later transformed into a literary magazine and eventually became a women's magazine in the late 1960s...
and Men's Health
Men's Health (magazine)
Men's Health , published by Rodale Inc. in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, United States, is the world’s largest men’s magazine brand, with 44 editions around the world. It is also the best-selling men's magazine on U.S. newsstands. It covers fitness, nutrition, sexuality, lifestyle and other aspects of...
.
She has appeared as a guest commentator on television networks such as MSNBC
MSNBC
MSNBC is a cable news channel based in the United States available in the US, Germany , South Africa, the Middle East and Canada...
, Fox News
Fox News Channel
Fox News Channel , often called Fox News, is a cable and satellite television news channel owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of News Corporation...
, plus Headline News, CNN
CNN
Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
, and MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
, and co-hosts New York Nonstop
New York Nonstop
WNBC-DT2 is a 24-hour entertainment-oriented news service broadcasting on a digital television subchannel of WNBC in New York City...
lifestyle show TMI Weekly.
As of 2009, her work includes speaking engagements on new media and marketing, as well as assisting various companies as brand spokesperson.
Collegiate life
Allison attended Georgetown UniversityGeorgetown University
Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...
, majoring in political science. While in college, she penned a dating column for the campus newspaper, The Hoya
The Hoya
The Hoya, the oldest and largest student newspaper of Georgetown University in Washington, DC, was founded in 1920. The Hoya prints an edition every Tuesday and Friday during the academic year and has a circulation of 6,500...
. During her studies she worked as a legislative correspondent for Illinois
Illinois
Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
Republican
Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...
congressman Mark Kirk
Mark Kirk
Mark Steven Kirk is the junior United States Senator from Illinois and a member of the Republican Party. Previously, Kirk was a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Illinois's 10th congressional district....
in the 107th Congress, later, during the 2004 election
United States presidential election, 2004
The United States presidential election of 2004 was the United States' 55th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 2, 2004. Republican Party candidate and incumbent President George W. Bush defeated Democratic Party candidate John Kerry, the then-junior U.S. Senator...
, contributing political commentary for Comcast TV. In 2004, Allison graduated from Georgetown University with a Political Science degree.
Writing and media appearances
In addition to her 2 year employment (2007–2009) as a Time Out New York columnist, she had a monthly column in COED magazine and has written for a variety of publications, including CosmopolitanCosmopolitan (magazine)
Cosmopolitan is an international magazine for women. It was first published in 1886 in the United States as a family magazine, was later transformed into a literary magazine and eventually became a women's magazine in the late 1960s...
, Maxim
Maxim (magazine)
Maxim is an international men's magazine based in the United Kingdom and known for its pictorials featuring popular actresses, singers, and female models, sometimes pictured dressed, often pictured scantily dressed but not fully nude....
, New York
New York (magazine)
New York is a weekly magazine principally concerned with the life, culture, politics, and style of New York City. Founded by Milton Glaser and Clay Felker in 1968 as a competitor to The New Yorker, it was brasher and less polite than that magazine, and established itself as a cradle of New...
, Teen Vogue
Teen Vogue
Teen Vogue magazine began as a version of Vogue magazine for teenage girls. This US magazine focuses on fashion and celebrities and offers information about the latest entertainment and feature stories on current issues and events.- Description :...
, Men's Health, Seventeen
Seventeen (magazine)
Seventeen is an American magazine for teenagers. It was first published in September 1944 by Walter Annenberg's Triangle Publications. News Corporation bought Triangle in 1988, and sold Seventeen to K-III Communications in 1991. Primedia sold the magazine to Hearst in 2003. It is still in the...
, and Capitol File. She also did party coverage for the Huffington Post.
Allison's public speaking focuses on new media and marketing; engagements include DLD (Digital, Lifestyle, Design) conference in Munich, at MIT
MIT Sloan School of Management
The MIT Sloan School of Management is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts....
and, in fall 2009 at Wharton
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
The Wharton School is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Wharton was the world’s first collegiate business school and the first business school in the United States...
business school on women entrepreneurs. Additionally, she works with various brands, including Sony through to early 2010, as a spokesperson.
As a television pundit, Allison has made occasional appearances on Fox Business's Happy Hour
Fox Business Happy Hour
Fox Business Happy Hour is an American financial program aired on the Fox Business Network weekdays from 5-6pm Eastern Time and was hosted by Rebecca Diamond, Cody Willard and Eric Bolling.-About the program:...
and Fox News' Red Eye
Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld
Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld is a late-night/early-morning satirical talk show on the Fox News Channel, airing at 3:00 am ET Tuesday through Saturday. The show features panelists and guests discussing the latest news in politics, pop culture, entertainment, business, sports, and religion...
show, plus regular appearances as a commentator on Fox News segments, CNN's Reliable Sources
Reliable Sources
Reliable Sources is a weekly show on CNN, focusing on analysis of the American news media. It was initially created to cover the media's coverage of the Persian Gulf War, but has since also covered the media's coverage of the Valerie Plame affair, the War in Iraq, the outing of Mark Felt as Deep...
, and Headline News' Showbiz Tonight
Showbiz Tonight
Showbiz Tonight is an American entertainment news program on HLN .Showbiz Tonight is hosted by A.J. Hammer at CNN New York. The show reports and debates celebrity entertainment news stories and controversies, along with social networking segments involving viewer interaction via social networks and...
and Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
Glenn Edward Lee Beck is an American conservative radio host, vlogger, author, entrepreneur, political commentator and former television host. He hosts the Glenn Beck Program, a nationally syndicated talk-radio show that airs throughout the United States on Premiere Radio Networks...
news-commentary show. Other appearances include E!
E!
E! Entertainment Television is an American basic cable and satellite television network, owned by NBCUniversal. It features entertainment-related programming, reality television, feature films and occasionally series and specials unrelated to the entertainment industry.E! has an audience reach of...
, MSNBC's Scarborough Country
Scarborough Country
Scarborough Country was an opinion/analysis show broadcast on MSNBC Monday - Thursday at 9 P.M. ET. It was hosted by former congressman Joe Scarborough....
; Montel Williams
The Montel Williams Show
The Montel Williams Show is a syndicated talk show hosted by Montel Williams. On January 30, 2008 it was announced that The Montel Williams Show would stop production on new episodes at the end of the 2007-2008 television season after seventeen years...
, NY Residential
NY Residential
NY Residential is a half-hour real estate TV program airing weekly on WPIX in New York City. The show is hosted by Cathy Hobbs, a journalist and Jeff Appel, a real estate industry expert and lecturer. They are joined by correspondent Leila Sbitani, formerly of Entertainment Tonight...
, and MTV's It's On with Alexa Chung
It's On with Alexa Chung
It's On with Alexa Chung was an American live interactive talk and variety program that aired weekdays on MTV from June 15 to December 17, 2009...
. Locally, media appearances include New York City's Fox 5, and Sirius radio. She co-hosts NBC New York Nonstop
New York Nonstop
WNBC-DT2 is a 24-hour entertainment-oriented news service broadcasting on a digital television subchannel of WNBC in New York City...
's TMI Weekly, joint owned by Next New Networks. Allison was also pictured by renowned photographer Platon
Platon (photographer)
Platon is a 21st century photographer who has taken portraits of many presidents and well known world figures. His photo of Vladimir Putin was on the cover of Time Magazine in 2007....
on Wired
Wired (magazine)
Wired is a full-color monthly American magazine and on-line periodical, published since January 1993, that reports on how new and developing technology affects culture, the economy, and politics...
magazine's cover in August, 2008.