About Alison King
Alison King is an award-winning journalist with over 30 years of experience in the broadcasting industry. She spent most of her career covering politics in New England including leading the local, state and regional political coverage for NBC Boston/NECN from 1995 until her retirement from TV in April 2023. She utilized her role as a political reporter to hold politicians accountable and to shed light on a variety of social issues in New England. She has covered seven presidential elections and interviewed every Republican and Democratic presidential candidate since 1996 including Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Barack Obama, and Bill Clinton.
King has also reported and produced three documentaries, including one about the late Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy titled “Ted Kennedy: Last Liberal Standing” and one about former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick titled “The Education of Deval Patrick.” Most recently, she executive produced and reported on an 11 part docu-series, “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of New Hampshire,” which chronicles the Free State Project and the efforts by libertarians nationwide to settle in New Hampshire to create a libertarian Utopia.
She has won several awards for her reporting including 4 Emmys, 2 Gracies and 3 Associated Press awards. While King is known for being a tough and fair political reporter, she was also known for her yearly holiday tradition of bringing politicians together to sing classic holiday songs in a segment called Political Harmony. This spring, King will also be a Shorenstein Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. King received her Bachelor of Arts in English from Colgate University and a Master of Arts in Journalism from New York University.
Berry IOP Fellowship | Spring 2024
Alison King visited campus multiple times throughout the semester to share her knowledge, skills, and experiences with students interested in journalism and politics. While on campus, she visited classes, facilitated meals with students, coordinated speaker/workshop events, and hosted one-on-one mentor meetings with students. Below are some highlights from her fellowship.
- The Importance of Civic Engagement: A Conversation with Joe Kennedy III, Former Congressman and Current Special Envoy to Northern Ireland for Economic Affairs
- How to Make Sense of the 2024 Election featuring Kimberly Atkins Stohr, Senior Opinion Writer and Columnist for the Boston Globe; James Pindell, National Political Reporter; and Scott Spradling, former reporter, anchor and political director for WMUR-TV
- Women’s History Month Leadership Luncheon
- Discussing media relations with our Running for Office Workshop participants
- Lunch with the Media & Communications Department
- Meetings with student organizations including The Log Newspaper, SSU Productions, and the Public Relations Society of America
Disclaimer: This information is accurate for the time period that this Fellow was affiliated with the Berry Institute of Politics.
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