Alison Starling
Alison has been co-anchor of Good Morning Washington and ABC7/WJLA-TV News at Noon since January 2004. During her time at ABC7/WJLA-TV, Alison has covered major local and national news stories including Hurricane Isabel in 2003, the Virginia Tech shootings in 2007 and the Papal Mass in Washington live from the Nationals Ballpark in April 2008.
This is Alison's third turn in the Washington D.C. area. She lived in the nation's capital as a child while her father worked for the U.S. Trade Representative and she later spent a summer in D.C. as a Congressional intern.
Alison came to ABC7/WJLA-TV from KIRO-TV in Seattle, where she spent three years as a reporter and anchor. While in the Pacific Northwest, she covered the Seattle Earthquake and the Tacoma connection to the D.C.-area sniper case. Alison also covered the aftermath of the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy live from Texas.
Prior to Seattle, Alison began her career as a reporter and morning anchor at WDEF in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Alison is a native Floridian, and like many of her family members, graduated from the University of Florida and is a proud Gator! After graduation, she earned a Cultural Ambassadorial Scholarship from Rotary International to study in France in 1995.
Alison enjoys working with a number of charitable organizations in the metro area including the City of Hope Walk for Hope benefiting Breast Cancer research, the National Foundation for Cancer Research and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
She has had three Little Sisters from Big Brothers Big Sisters of America during the last ten years. Alison is also a member of the Board of Directors for Big Brothers Big Sisters of the National Capital Area. In 2009, Alison was named the National Capital Region's Big Sister of the Year. Washingtonian Magazine also named Alison one of the D.C. area's rising stars in local television news in June of 2005.
In November, 2006, Alison took over the long running and popular series "Working Woman." What Kathleen Matthews began more than a dozen years ago continues as Alison profiles accomplished, respected women in the Washington area who contribute to the community in unique ways. Alison produces and writes these reports and is always looking for exceptional women to showcase. Look for "Working Women" every other week on ABC7/WJLA-TV News at Five. To watch recent profiles of outstanding local women, find the “Working Woman” page on our website under the heading "On Your Side."
