Alison Fitzgerald Kodjak is an American journalist and currently works for the Associated Press as its Washington investigations editor.
18 Facts About Alison Kodjak
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Alison Kodjak previously reported for the AP from 1997 to 2000.
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Alison Kodjak formerly worked for National Public Radio, where she led the science desk, the Center for Public Integrity, and at Bloomberg News for 10 years, and has worked as a reporter for newspapers, including The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Alison Kodjak is a two-time winner of the George Polk Award, one of journalism's most prestigious honors.
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Alison Kodjak attended Georgetown University, graduating with majors in Italian and European Studies in 1991, and the Northwestern University - The Medill School of Journalism in 1994, with specialties in legal and science writing.
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Alison Kodjak attended the Universita degli Studi di Siena in Siena, Tuscany, and is fluent in English, French, and Italian.
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Alison Kodjak 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.
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Alison Kodjak next moved to become an international editor at the Associated Press World Desk in New York from 1997 to 2000.
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In 2000, Alison Kodjak joined Bloomberg News to report on a wide variety of financial and business subjects, including the USauto industry, the Federal Reserve, the US Treasury, economics and tax policy, winning several journalism awards.
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Alison Kodjak frequently appeared on the Sunday morning talk show Political Capital with Al Hunt.
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Alison Kodjak was awarded the Overseas Press Club's Malcolm Forbes Award for her coverage of the international food price crisis in 2008 in a special seven-part series, "Recipe For Famine".
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In 2011, Alison Kodjak was awarded the Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress.
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Alison Kodjak moved to the Center for Public Integrity to head a new investigative journalism team in 2011.
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In 2013, Alison Kodjak received her second George Polk Award for her reporting at the CPI on the fates of high-level financial and banking executives responsible for the Global Financial Crisis.
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Alison Kodjak is the co-author, with Stanley Reed, of the book In Too Deep: BP and the Drilling Race that Brought it Down, the story of BP's devastating oil-well explosion and spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and the corporate culture and governance that led to it.
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On December 7,2018, Alison Kodjak was elected as 112th president of the National Press Club.
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Alison Kodjak sits on the Board of Governors of the National Press Club and is past Chairwoman of the Capital City Symphony in Washington, DC.
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Alison Kodjak is married to Drew Alison Kodjak, executive director of the International Council on Clean Transportation.