Alexandra Wallace

Wallace graduated from Columbia University, where she majored in English literature.{{Citation needed|date=May 2021}} After college, she spent a year in London.{{Cite news|last=Steinberg|first=Jacques|date=May 17, 2007|title=New Producer at 'Nightly News' Seeks to Regain NBC Dominance|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/17/arts/television/17wall.html|access-date=May 8, 2021}} Wallace started her news career at CBS News's London bureau. With CBS, she worked on CBS Evening News and 48 Hours, before working as a senior producer for The Early Show.{{Cite news|last=Steinberg|first=Brian|date=July 24, 2015|title=Alex Wallace, One of NBC's Most Senior News Executives, Departs|work=Variety|url=https://variety.com/2015/tv/news/alex-wallace-one-of-nbcs-most-senior-news-executives-departs-1201548287/|access-date=May 8, 2021}}

After 17 years with CBS, Wallace joined NBC News in March 2005 working on Weekend Today as executive producer. In June 2006, Wallace was promoted, becoming deputy to NBC News president Steve Capus In spring 2007, she began working with Brian Williams as executive producer on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. She was tasked with improving the show's loss of viewership to its rival ABC News show World News with Charles Gibson. In October 2012, Wallace transitioned from serving another stint as Capus's deputy to being executive producer for Rock Center with Brian Williams.{{Cite news|last=Guthrie|first=Marisa|date=November 12, 2012|title='Today' Show Shakeup: Alexandra Wallace to Replace Jim Bell as Top Producer|work=The Hollywood Reporter|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/alexandra-wallace-replace-jim-bell-today-show-389640/|access-date=May 8, 2021}} In November 2012, Wallace was put in charge of Today to try and reverse a ratings decline after the dismissal of former anchor Ann Curry. She became the first woman executive to run Today.{{Cite news|last=Stelter|first=Brian|author-link=Brian Stelter|date=November 12, 2012|title=NBC Moves to Shake Up 'Today' Leadership|work=The New York Times|url=https://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/12/nbc-moves-to-shake-up-today-leadership/|access-date=May 8, 2021}} In 2014, Wallace took over running Meet the Press during a period of poor ratings with former anchor David Gregory. By the time of her departure in July 2015, Wallace was deputy to NBC News president Deborah Turness.

In 2020, in her role as head of media and content for Verizon Media, Wallace took operational control of HuffPost after Lydia Polgreen's resignation as editor-in-chief.{{Cite news|last1=Lu|first1=Denise|last2=Huang|first2=Jon|last3=Seshagiri|first3=Ashwin|last4=Park|first4=Haeyoun|last5=Griggs|first5=Troy|date=September 9, 2020|title=Faces of Power: 80% Are White, Even as U.S. Becomes More Diverse|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/09/us/powerful-people-race-us.html|access-date=May 8, 2021}}

Wallace has won 11 Emmy Awards, 2 Dupont Awards, a Gracie Award, a Peabody Award, as well as a John Jay Award for distinguished professional achievement from the Columbia College Alumni Association, for which she is a member of the Board of Directors. Wallace is a member of The Council on Foreign Relations as well as a CUP board member.{{Citation needed|date=May 2021}}

Wallace's husband is a private school administrator in Manhattan; {{As of|2007|May}}, they had two children, a son and a daughter, together.

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• [https://archive.today/20130104035808/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17506618/ Biography at NBC Nightly News]

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