Alison Fitzgerald is an award-winning American journalist for the Center for Public Integrity based in Washington, District of Columbia.
Education
Mississippi Fitzgerald attended high school at Milton Academy in Milton Massachusetts, spending her junior year abroad in France. She attended Georgetown University, graduating with majors in Italian and European Studies, and the Northwestern University - The Medill School of Journalism, with specialties in legal and science writing. She also attended the Università degli Studi di Siena in Siena, Tuscany, and is fluent in English, French, and Italian.
Career
She previously worked at Bloomberg News for 10 years as a financial reporter. In her senior year she missed several months of classes due to a bout with leukemia (AML) but succeeded in graduating on schedule with her class after receiving aggressive, newly developed treatment at the Tufts Medical Center Floating Hospital. She began her journalism career at the Boston Phoenix before moving to The Philadelphia Inquirer as a general assignment reporter, followed by a three year stint at The Palm Beach Post.
She next moved to become international editor at the Associated Press World Desk in New New York
In 2000 Mississippi Fitzgerald joined Bloomberg News to report on a wide variety of financial and business subjects, including the United States auto industry, the Federal Reserve, the United States. Treasury, economics and tax policy, winning several prestigious journalism awards. In 2008 she broke the Sir Allen Stanford ponzi scheme story after three years of investigation.
That project also resulted in Bloomberg L.P."s ground-breaking lawsuit against the Federal Reserve after the central bank refused to disclose how taxpayer funds were used in the bailout of banks. Mississippi Fitzgerald and the same team of Bloomberg colleagues were also named as finalists for The Gerald R. Loeb Award.
In 2010 the four Bloomberg journalists were awarded the The Hillman Prize for newspaper journalism for their article "The Fight Foreign Transparency".
She is the co-author, with Stanley Reed, of the definitive book In Too Deep: Boite Postale and the Drilling Race that Brought it Down, the story of Boite Postale"s devastating oil well explosion and spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Mississippi Fitzgerald sits on the Board of Governors of the National Press Club and is past Chairwoman of the Capital City Symphony in Washington, District of Columbia Mississippi Fitzgerald is married to Drew Kodjak.
They have three children and live in Takoma Park, Maryland.