Alison Fitzgerald is an American financial journalist

Journalist

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, and Bloomberg News reporter.

She graduated from Georgetown University

Georgetown University

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, and from Northwestern University

Northwestern University

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, Medill School of Journalism.
She started her career at the Philadelphia Inquirer, then moved to The Palm Beach Post, spent three years as a reporter and editor at the Associated Press

Associated Press

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She joined Bloomberg news in 2000.

She is married to Drew Kodjak; they have three children and live in Takoma Park, Maryland

Takoma Park, Maryland

Takoma Park is a city in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. It is a suburb of Washington, D.C., and part of the Washington Metropolitan Area. Founded in 1883 and incorporated in 1890, Takoma Park, informally called "Azalea City," is a Tree City USA and a nuclear-free zone...

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See also

• List of George Polk Award Winners
• Mark Pittman
  Mark Pittman
  James Mark Pittman was a financial journalist covering corporate finance and derivative markets. He was awarded several prestigious journalism awards, the Gerald Loeb Award, the George Polk Award, a New York Press Club award, the Hillman Prize and several New York Associated Press awards.-...
  
  
• Craig Torres
  Craig Torres
  Craig Torres is an American financial journalist, and reporter for Bloomberg News in Washington, D.C.He graduated from Harvard College, and was a Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1989....
  
  
• Bob Ivry
  Bob Ivry
  Robert Ivry is an American financial journalist, and staff reporter for Bloomberg News.He worked for the San Francisco Bay Guardian, San Francisco Examiner, Bergen Record, of Hackensack, New Jersey....