Alison Stewart

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ALISON STEWART

Correspondent, CBS News Sunday Morning



Alison Stewart has been a correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning since 1998. She has contributed to several other CBS News broadcasts, including 48 Hours, This Morning, Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel, and the CBS Evening News weekend edition.



Stewart has reported on a wide variety of stories, including rights for the disabled, abortion clinic terrorism, and a Baltimore inner-city kids exchange program in Africa. She also has contributed profiles of legendary artists, including John Lee Hooker.



She joined CBS News from MTV News (1991-96). Stewart had been a reporter there since January 1993 and a producer since 1991. She reported on the 1992 and 1996 presidential campaigns and received a Peabody Award for her role in the channel's Choose or Lose 1992 election coverage.



Stewart hosted MTV News Unfiltered, reported for Megadose (1995-96), MTV's alternative health program, and produced for House of Style (1991-93). She also contributed to MTV's first special on racism, "Racism: Points of View" (1991). In addition to those assignments, Stewart served as anchor for MTV News On The Radio, a daily syndicated radio report.



Prior to joining MTV, Stewart was music director for WBRU Radio at Brown University, the nation's largest commercial college radio station (1988). She also hosted PBS' Act Against Racism Campaign, anchored the news for WHTZ Radio in New York, and served as a contributing writer for Swing magazine.



Stewart was born July 4, 1966 in Glen Ridge, N.J. She graduated from Brown University in 1988 with a degree in English and American literature. She lives in New York.

[Raleighkris]

I am conflicted over the story about the boy that took money in exchange for taking the SAT exam. Although i do not condone cheating, i wonder how valid these type of exams really are. Shouldn't you be seeing how those students that paid for someone to take their exam for them are handling the workload at the schools that accepted them (most likely) largely in part because of those test scores? If the students are not failing out of those schools ...then what is the purpose of this type of prescreening?