Alison Fitzgerald

Who is Alison Fitzgerald?

Alison Fitzgerald is a an award-winning American journalist for the Center for Public Integrity based in Washington, DC. She previously worked at Bloomberg News for 10 years as a financial reporter. She is a two-time winner of the George Polk Award, one of journalism's most prestigious honors.

Ms. Fitzgerald attended high school at Milton Academy in Milton Massachusetts, spending her junior year abroad in France. In her senior year she missed several months of classes due to a bout with leukemia but succeeded in graduating on schedule with her class after receiving aggressive, newly-developed treatment at the Tufts Medical Center Floating Hospital. She attended Georgetown University, graduating with majors in Italian and European Studies, and the Northwestern University - The Medill School of Journalism, with specialties in legal and science writing. She also attended the Università degli Studi di Siena in Siena, Tuscany, and is fluent in English, French, and Italian.

She began her journalism career at the Boston Phoenix before moving to The Philadelphia Inquirer as a general assignment reporter, followed by a three year stint at The Palm Beach Post. She next moved to become international editor at the Associated Press World Desk in New York.