Alisyn Camerota

Journalist

1966-06-21

Alisyn Camerota is an American broadcast journalist and political commentator. She has worked as a national television news anchor and correspondent.

Quotes by Alisyn Camerota

Life can be anxiety provoking, and the more we talk about mental health, the more we normalize it and help remove the stigma.
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You know, there are many mornings I come in and pray for other news to eclipse any sort of Russia thread.
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I began writing 'Amanda Wakes Up' in 2012 as an outlet for frustration over what I was seeing in TV 'news' at the time. The novel was supposed to be satire, not a Book of Prophesies.
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By the time I graduated with a journalism degree, there was a general understanding that women in TV news were on borrowed time. Though it wasn't explicitly spelled out in job interviews, we all understood we had a shelf life and somewhere in our late 40s, we'd hit our expiration date.
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Women in TV news had to make a choice, it was said: family or career. And in the 1970s and '80s, the rigors of breaking into journalism and field reporting did force many women to forgo having families.
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When I was 15, I had my own epiphany about how cool TV news looked.
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That is the kind of magic of campaigns. The unpredictability of what goes on on the campaign trail is what makes it so exciting.
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I prefer my real friends over fake humanoids run by computers and true trolls filled with genuine venom.
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Not all information is created equal, which means kids need to learn how to recognize quality journalism that meets certain standards, such as having multiple sources and verified facts, being balanced, being fair, avoiding bias and putting information in context.
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Call me old fashioned, but I like hearing viewers' real thoughts, not the ones special interest groups pay them to tweet.
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Digital tools and 'create a fake' websites make it easy for anyone to falsify or manipulate an image, social media posts, news reports, videos - really, just about anything.
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If it's a beautiful day we love to go to the Museum of Natural History. They have sprinklers. It's what passes for a water park on the Upper West Side.
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I spend some portion of every day lying supine on a sofa or on my bed staring out the window at the branches of a tree gently wafting in the wind. I mean, I have to find a way to get centered and regroup and get back to something zen.
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