Alison Grande
Alison Grande
Alison Grande is an American Emmy Award-winning journalist who currently works as a reporter for KIRO 7 -TV Eyewitness News since 1994.[1][2]
Personal Life
Alison was born to her parents in Redmond, the United States where she likewise experienced her childhood. She likes to keep her personal matters away from the public eye. She enjoys traveling, music, and theater.
Education
Alison Grande went to Redmond High School where she studied and graduated in 1988 to 1991.
After her High School, she was admitted in Pacific Lutheran University in 1991 where she studied and graduated with BA (Bachelor of Arts) in Broadcast Communications and Business Administration in 1995. [4]
Career
Alison Grande began her career as News Intern at KIRO 7 -TV in June 1994 to August 1994.
From June 1995 – August 1995 she still worked at KIRO 7 as Reporter Intern.
She worked as Consumer Investigative Producer at KIRO 7 from 1996 to 1999 where she collaborated with consumer reporter to expose scams and warn viewers, managed data and found trends that led to industry changes, participated in consumer roundtable with government and local leaders to work to protect consumers, developed investigative reporting skills learned at I.R.E., [6] Investigative Reporters and Editors conferences.
Alison also worked at KIRO 7 from 1999 to 2008 as Reporter where she presented the lead story for the 5 p.m. newscast consistently, conducted daily interviews, dug through court records, wrote compelling stories, focused on reporting Eastside stories as KIRO-7’s Eastside Bureau Chief, developed a compassionate approach for interviews of victims’ relatives, showed the devastation of wildfires and flooding in Washington state.[7]
She has received several awards, including an Emmy Award, in 1997. Other awards include first place from the Society of Professional Journalists (1998) and “Best of the West” awards in 1997, and 2000.
Currently, Alison works as Reporter – Television and Digital Media at KIRO 7 in Greater Seattle Area since 2009.
Industry Knowledge
News Writing
Public Relations
Project Management
Breaking News
Broadcast Journalism
Social Media
Media Relations
Broadcast
Internal Communications
Digital Media
Online Journalism
Video Production
Media Production
Crisis Communications
Social Media Marketing
Social Media Measurement
Editing
Radio
Multimedia
Facebook Marketing
Content Development
Live Events
Social Media Communications
Some of Alison Grande’s News Articles
Evergreen Medical Center nurse who treated COVID-19 patients dies
Julian worked at Evergreen Medical Center in Kirkland and friends say he treated some of the earliest coronavirus patients.
Half of new COVID-19 cases are adults under 40, children
(National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) By: Alison Grande Updated: May 28, 2020 - 5:40 PM WASHINGTON — According to the Washington State Department of Health data, half of the new COVID-19 cases the week of May 10 were under 40 years old.
The increase in cases goes along with the analysis done by Dr. Judith Malmgren, an epidemiologist affiliated with the University of Washington.[9]
Bothell teen recovering after critical complications due to COVID-19
BOTHELL, Wash. — Anthony Lawson went from being a healthy 13 year-old, to facing the fight of his life.
Doctors say complications from Covid-19 nearly killed the Bothell 8th grader.
Now he’s at home recovering from the devastating illness.
“My mom gut was: something is not right,” said Theresa Lawson.
She said it started at the very end of April, Anthony seemed to have allergy symptoms: itchy eyes, stuffy nose, and a headache.
Then he got dizzy so they took him to urgent care.[10]
Impostors wreak havoc on Washington state unemployment system
SEATTLE — In the last five days, the King County Sheriff's Office has had nearly 1,700 victims file police reports online.
Victims don't know they've been targeted until they get a letter in the mail.
Many of the letters mention the Self-Employment Assistance Program (SEAP) and suggest those who are out of work could become entrepreneurs.
It is part of the impostor fraud hitting unemployment systems from Washington, to Massachusetts and to Florida.
Seattle-based COVID-19 vaccine trial shows promise
SEATTLE — Drugmaker Moderna announced promising results today in the first COVID-19 vaccine trial based in Seattle.
The clinical trial at Kaiser Permanente is testing the vaccine made by Moderna.
Results show participants, even those given the lowest dose, had antibodies in their blood similar to someone who had coronavirus and recovered.
Forty-five Seattle-area residents volunteered for the study.
Jennifer Haller, 43, of Seattle, was first.