Alison Starling Bio
Alison Starling is an American Emmy award-winning television news anchor and journalist. Currently she is anchoring the 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. newscasts at WJLA-TV. In 2012, Alison won Emmys for Best Anchor and for Continuing Coverage for the 2011 Earthquake.
In 2013 she won for her role in the 7News special on Pope Francis, in 2015 for Continuing Coverage of the Baltimore Riots, in 2018 for Continuing Coverage of the Capital Gazette Shooting and in 2019 for her piece on military caregivers.
Starling joined WJLA-TV in August 2003. One year later, she became co-anchor of Good Morning Washington (5-7AM) and ABC7 News at Noon. In 2005, Washingtonian named her one of the area’s rising stars in local television news.
Before joining 7News Alison worked at KIRO-TV in Seattle, where she spent three years as a reporter and anchor. While in the Pacific Northwest, she covered the Seattle Earthquake and the Tacoma connection to the D.C.-area sniper case. Alison also covered the aftermath of the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy live from Texas. Prior to Seattle, Alison began her career as a reporter and morning anchor at WDEF in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Alison Starling Age
Alison is 49 years old as of 2022. She was born on October 28, 1973 in Orlando, Florida, in the United States of America. In addition, she celebrates her birthday on 28 October every year and her zodiac sign is Scorpio.
Alison Starling Height
Starling stands tall at an average height of 5 feet 7 inches (1.7 meters) and has a moderate weight. She has an attractive complexion with dark eyes and blonde hair.
Alison Starling Family
Starling was born in Orlando, Florida. She is the daughter to Bruce (father) and Dolores Starling (mother). Alison is from a military family and spent part of her childhood in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. Her father worked for the Office of the United States Trade Representative. Later Starling went back to DC to be a congressional intern. According to a DNA test she and her husband took, Alison is of mostly British and Irish descent.
Starling graduated from University of Florida in 1995. She then earned a Cultural Ambassadorial Scholarship from Rotary International to study in Tours, France for six months in 1995.
Alison Starling Husband
Alison is happily married to her loving husband Peter Alexander a NBC News correspondent. Starling met her husband in 2001 and they became engaged in August 2011 in France. The couple tied the knot on Saturday April 21, 2012, atop the Newseum in Washington, DC. Starling and her husband are happy parents of two adorable children known as Ava and Emma. They all resides in Northern Virginia.
Alison Starling Salary
Starling earns an annual salary of $107 thousand from her career as a a co-anchor of WJLA-TV’s weekday 4 PM and 5PM newscasts.
Alison Starling Net worth
Starling has an estimated net worth of between $1 million dollars to $5 million dollars as of 2023. Her main source of income is her career as a news anchor and journalist.