Allison Aubrey
{{short description|American journalist}}
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Allison Aubrey is an American journalist. She is an NPR correspondent, a contributor to CBS Sunday Morning, and a frequent conference moderator. She's the recipient of numerous awards including a New York Press Club Award, a National Press Club award, a Gracie Award and a James Beard Award winner.
Early life
Aubrey earned a BA from Denison University in Granville, Ohio, and an MA from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.{{Cite web|title=Allison Aubrey|url=https://www.wuga.org/people/allison-aubrey|access-date=2020-12-06|website=www.wuga.org|language=en}} She was a Knight Science Journalism fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Kaiser Media Fellow 2010. {{Cite web|title=Nine Journalists Named as 2009 Kaiser Med... ( ...)|url=http://www.bio-medicine.org/medicine-news-1/Nine-Journalists-Named-as-2009-Kaiser-Media-Fellows-47071-1/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091120124234/http://www.bio-medicine.org/medicine-news-1/Nine-Journalists-Named-as-2009-Kaiser-Media-Fellows-47071-1/|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 20, 2009|access-date=2021-11-06|website=www.bio-medicine.org}}
Career
Early in her career Aubrey was a reporter for PBS NewsHour and [https://www.weforum.org/people/allison-aubrey a] producer for C-SPAN's Presidential election coverage.
Aubrey began working at NPR in 2003 as a general assignment reporter. Her stories air on NPR programs Morning Edition and All Things Considered. She has been a [https://www.npr.org/programs/all-things-considered/2016/12/25/506927751/all-things-considered-for-december-25-2016 guest host of Weekend All Things Considered] and [https://dianerehm.org/shows/2016-05-19/roger-thurow-the-first-1000-days-a-crucial-time-for-mothers-and-children-and-the-world The Diane Rehm show]. She hosted NPR's video series Tiny Desk Kitchen{{cite news|last1=Tanya|first1=Pai|title=Food Diaries: How NPR Correspondent Allison Aubrey Eats for a Day|url=https://www.washingtonian.com/2014/07/15/food-diaries-how-npr-correspondent-allison-aubrey-eats-for-a-day/|accessdate=25 October 2016|work=Washingtonian|date=15 July 2014}} and is one of the hosts of Life Kit.{{Cite news|title=Feeling Anxious? Here's a Quick Tool To Center Your Soul : Life Kit|language=en|work=NPR.org|url=https://www.npr.org/2020/02/03/802347757/a-conversation-with-tara-brach-mindfulness-tools-for-big-feelings|access-date=2021-11-06}} With CBS colleagues, she was awarded the 2020 New York Press Club award for Consumer Reporting in the TV category.{{Cite web|title=New York Press Club Announces its 2020 Journalism Award Winners – The New York Press Club|url=https://www.nypressclub.org/new-york-press-club-announces-its-2020-journalism-award-winners/|access-date=2021-11-06|website=www.nypressclub.org|date=19 August 2020 }} She won a 2018 James Beard Award{{Cite web|date=April 27, 2018|first=Maria|last=Yagoda|title=These Are the 2018 James Beard Award Media Winners|url=https://www.foodandwine.com/news/james-beard-award-winners-media-2018|access-date=2021-11-06|website=Food & Wine|language=en}} for reporting on Food As Medicine. At the 2016 James Beard Foundation Media Awards, Aubrey won the James Beard Award for Television Segment for a PBS NewsHour stories on food waste.{{cite news|last1=Downs|first1=Jere|title='Sourdough' recipe path to James Beard glory|url=http://www.courier-journal.com/story/life/food/farm-to-table/2016/05/10/sourdough-recipe-path-james-beard-glory/83981362/|accessdate=25 October 2016|work=The Courier-Journal|date=May 10, 2016}} In 2012, Aubrey and colleagues at NPR's food blog The Salt won the foundation's award for Best Food Blog.
She is a frequent moderator including at the World Economic Forum in Davos,{{Cite web|title=Allison Aubrey|url=https://www.weforum.org/people/allison-aubrey/|access-date=2021-11-06|website=World Economic Forum|language=en}} The [https://milkeninstitute.org/video/leadership-food-sustainability Milken Global Summit] in Beverly Hills, CA, The Consumer Federation of America [https://consumerfed.org/food-policy-conference-2021/ National Food Policy Conference], [https://foodtank.com/news/2018/10/food-is-a-political-act-once-you-open-your-eyes-says-aubrey/ Food Tank] conferences and The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, [https://www.thechicagocouncil.org/events/global-food-security-symposium-2019 Global Food Security Symposium]
She has reported more than 200 stories on the global pandemic, interviewing dozens of COVID-19 experts and doctors including Atul Gawande for a CBS story on mass vaccination sites,{{Cite web|title=Mass vaccinations: How stadiums host a COVID defensive play|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mass-vaccinations-how-stadiums-host-a-covid-defensive-play/|access-date=2021-11-06|website=www.cbsnews.com|date=7 February 2021 |language=en-US}} Scott Gottlieb, Janet Woodcock, Francis Collins, Stephen Hoge{{Cite news|title=U.S. Moves Closer To Biden's July 4 COVID-19 Vaccination Goal|language=en|work=NPR.org|url=https://www.npr.org/2021/06/07/1003872869/u-s-moves-closer-to-bidens-july-4-covid-19-vaccination-goal|access-date=2021-11-06}} and Stéphane Bancel for a CBS story on the future of mRNA vaccines.{{Cite web|title=How mRNA technology is altering vaccine treatments|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mrna-technology-messenger-ribonucleic-acid-vaccine-treatments-moderna/|access-date=2021-11-06|website=www.cbsnews.com|date=20 June 2021 |language=en-US}} Her consumer health stories{{Cite news|last1=Aubrey|first1=Allison|last2=Simmons-Duffin|first2=Selena|date=2021-11-03|title=Some parents want to wait to vaccinate their kids. Here's why doctors say do it now|language=en|work=NPR|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/11/03/1051299050/covid-vaccine-kids-5-11|access-date=2021-11-06}} have been picked up widely by Apple News and other outlets.
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