Background
Alison Loll Starling was born on October 28, 1973 to mother Dolores Starling (née Loll) and father Bruce Starling. Metropolitan area while her father worked for the Office of the United States Trade Representative.
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Starling graduated from University of Florida in 1995.
Career
She is a co-anchor of WJLA-television"s weekday 4 Prime Minister, 5PM and 11PM newscasts. Starling is from a military family and spent part of her childhood in the Washington District of Columbia She later returned to District of Columbia to be a congressional international After graduating from college, Starling earned a Cultural Ambassadorial Scholarship from Rotary International to study in Tours, France for six months in 1995.
Early career
Her career began at WDEF-television in Chattanooga, Tennessee as a reporter and anchor.
Next she worked for three years at KIRO-television in Seattle, Washington where she covered the Seattle Earthquake. Current
Starling joined WJLA-television in August 2003.
Just one year later Starling became co-anchor of Good Morning Washington(5-7AM) and ABC7 News at Noon. In 2005, Washingtonian named her one of the area’s rising stars in local television news.
She was previously the co-anchor of the early morning program "Good Morning Washington".
In addition, she also anchors Politico.com"s "Playback" video segment--"where we watch so you don"t have to"—which shows excerpts of late night television shows discussing political news. Starling met National Broadcasting Company News correspondent Peter Alexander when they worked together in Seattle in 2001, however they didn"t begin dating until Alexander was assigned to District of Columbia in 2009. In August 2011 they became engaged in France.
In February 2013 she announced her pregnancy and shared she is having a girl.
Starling gave birth to an eight-pound, one ounce girl named Ava Starling Alexander on July 23, 2013. On December 11, 2014, the Washington Post noted that Starling is expecting the couple"s second child.
