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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]
Allison Gilbert | |
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| Occupation(s) | Journalist, author |
| Known for | Author of Listen, World!, Passed and Present |
| Spouse | Mark Weintraub |
| Children | Jake Weintraub, Lexi Weintraub |
| Website | www |
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]
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]
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.
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