Julia Allison

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Julia Allison

Head shot provided by Julia Allison
Occupation journalist
Notable credit(s) Star Magazine; CNN, MSNBC, Fox Business
Official website

Julia Allison (real name: Julia Allison Baugher) is an American journalist, a columnist for Time Out New York, and a creator of the group videoblog NonSociety.com. She has appeared on the cable networks MSNBC, Headline News, Fox News and Fox Business. She was the author of a weekly dating column for AM New York, and was an editor-at-large for Star between June 2007 and June 2008. Allison is originally from Wilmette, a northern suburb of Chicago.

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Collegiate life

In college, Allison wrote the dating column "Sex on the Hilltop" for Georgetown University's newspaper, The Hoya, under the name Julia Baugher.[1] She also worked as a full-time legislative correspondent for Illinois Republican Congressman Mark Kirk in the 107th Congress as well as in his 2000 campaign. Allison has been romantically linked with former Tennessee Congressman Harold Ford, Jr., a Democrat, in 2002. Her relationship was used as an attack ad by the National Republican Senatorial Committee in Ford's unsuccessful run for United States Senate in 2006.[2] In response, she commented on the experience,[3][4] and wrote about the relationship in a July 2006 Cosmopolitan article.[5] Consequently, some of her comments were read aloud by Rush Limbaugh on his nationwide conservative talk radio show.[6] In 2004, Allison graduated from Georgetown University.

Writing and media appearances

Allison reporting from Bryant Park Tents during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week on September 7, 2007. Photo credit: Christopher Peterson.

In addition to writing for Time Out New York, she had a monthly column in CO-ED Magazine and has written for a variety of magazines, including Cosmopolitan, Maxim, New York, Teen Vogue, Men's Health, Seventeen, and Capitol File. She also does party coverage for the Huffington Post.[7]

She has appeared occasionally on the Fox Business show Happy Hour and Fox News' Red Eye. She appears weekly on CNN's Showbiz Tonight and Glenn Beck, as well as on Montel Williams, MSNBC's Scarborough Country. Locally, she has appeared on New York City's Fox 5, and Sirius radio. In 2006, Allison appeared in an episode of Elimidate.[8] She was also on Gawker's list of personalities of the year in 2006.[9] In 2008, Allison appeared in an episode of CollegeHumor's Hardly Working.[10] Allison is also pictured on the cover of the August, 2008 Wired Magazine.[11]

References

  1. ^ "Field Guide: Julia Allison". Gawker Staff,. Gawker. 2008-03-09. http://gawker.com/news/field-guide/field-guide-julia-allison-211734.php. Retrieved on 2008-03-09. 
  2. ^ "Doin' the nasty: NRSC slams Ford for dating". The Hotline,. National Journal. 2006-10-17. http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2006/10/doin_the_nasty.html. Retrieved on 2008-01-14. 
  3. ^ Allison, Julia (2006-10-20). "GOP's new priorities: making sure congressmen call back, open doors". http://blog.juliaallison.com/2006/10/harold_ford.html. Retrieved on 2008-01-14. 
  4. ^ Allison, Julia (2006-10-26). "The GOP's new priorities, part 2: ugly blonde women against Ford". http://blog.juliaallison.com/2006/10/harold_ford_part_2.html. Retrieved on 2008-01-14. 
  5. ^ Allison, Julia (July 2006). "What it's like to date a hotshot". http://www.juliaallison.com/articles/2006/07/cosmo_july_2006.html. Retrieved on 2008-01-14. 
  6. ^ F., B.; A.S. (2006-10-30). "Limbaugh claimed "there's a basis" for RNC ad critics have deemed racist: "Harold Ford has dated a white woman"". Media Matters for America. http://mediamatters.org/items/200610310004. Retrieved on 2008-01-14. 
  7. ^ Allison, Julia (2007-04-23). "WHCD 2007: Stars, slippers & Sanjaya". Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eat-the-press/2007/04/23/whcd-2007-stars-slipper_e_46569.html. Retrieved on 2008-01-14. 
  8. ^ "Meet our new dating scribe". Time Out New York. May 10–16, 2007. http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/sex-dating/1558/meet-our-new-dating-scribe. Retrieved on 2008-06-17. 
  9. ^ "Gawker's personalities of the year". Gawker. 2006-12-29. http://gawker.com/news/top/gawkers-personalities-of-the-year-225097.php. Retrieved on 2008-01-14. 
  10. ^ "Hardly Working: Office Fantasy". CollegeHumor. 2008-01-22. http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1798438. Retrieved on 2008-01-22. 
  11. ^ "Internet Famous: Julia Allison and the Secrets of Self-Promotion". Wired (magazine). 2008-08. http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/magazine/16-08/howto_allison. Retrieved on 2008-07-23. 

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