Julia Allison

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name=Julia Allison


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Julia Allison is an American columnist, the editor-at-large for "Star" and a columnist for "Time Out New York". She appears on the cable networks MSNBC, Headline News, and Fox Business frequently and in the past Fox News. She was the author of a weekly social column entitled "The Dating Life" which appeared in "AM New York". Allison is originally from Wilmette, a northern suburb of Chicago.

Collegiate life

In college, Allison wrote the dating column "Sex on the Hilltop" for Georgetown University's newspaper, "The Hoya", under the name Julia Baugher. [cite web
url=http://gawker.com/news/field-guide/field-guide-julia-allison-211734.php
title=Field Guide: Julia Allison
accessdate=2008-03-09
date=2008-03-09
work=Gawker Staff,
publisher=Gawker] She also worked as a full-time legislative correspondent for Illinois Republican Congressman Mark Kirk in the 107th Congress as well as in his 2000 campaign. Allison has been romantically linked with former Tennessee Congressman Harold Ford, Jr., a Democrat, in 2002. Her relationship was used as an attack ad by the National Republican Senatorial Committee in Ford's unsuccessful run for United States Senate in 2006. [cite web
url=http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2006/10/doin_the_nasty.html
title=Doin' the nasty: NRSC slams Ford for dating
accessdate=2008-01-14
date=2006-10-17
work=The Hotline,
publisher=National Journal] In response, she commented on the experience, [cite web
url=http://blog.juliaallison.com/2006/10/harold_ford.html
title=GOP's new priorities: making sure congressmen call back, open doors
accessdate=2008-01-14
last=Allison
first=Julia
date=2006-10-20] [cite web
url=http://blog.juliaallison.com/2006/10/harold_ford_part_2.html
title=The GOP's new priorities, part 2: ugly blonde women against Ford
accessdate=2008-01-14
last=Allison
first=Julia
date=2006-10-26] and wrote about the relationship in a July 2006 "Cosmopolitan" article. [cite web
url=http://www.juliaallison.com/articles/2006/07/cosmo_july_2006.html
title=What it's like to date a hotshot
accessdate=2008-01-14
last=Allison
first=Julia
year=2006
month=July] Consequently, some of her comments were read aloud by Rush Limbaugh on his nationwide conservative talk radio show. [cite web
url=http://mediamatters.org/items/200610310004
title=Limbaugh claimed "there's a basis" for RNC ad critics have deemed racist: "Harold Ford has dated a white woman"
accessdate=2008-01-14
last=F.
first=B.
coauthors=A.S.
date=2006-10-30
publisher=Media Matters for America] In 2004, Allison graduated from Georgetown University.

Writing and media appearances

In addition to writing for "Time Out New York", she had a monthly column in "CO-ED" Magazine and has written for a variety of magazines, including "Cosmopolitan", "Maxim", "New York," "Teen Vogue", "Men's Health", "Seventeen", and "Capitol File". She also does party coverage for the "Huffington Post". [cite web
url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eat-the-press/2007/04/23/whcd-2007-stars-slipper_e_46569.html
title=WHCD 2007: Stars, slippers & Sanjaya
accessdate=2008-01-14
last=Allison
first=Julia
date=2007-04-23
publisher=Huffington Post]

She has appeared occasionally on the Fox Business show "Happy Hour" and Fox News' " Red Eye". She appears weekly on CNN's "Showbiz Tonight" and "Glenn Beck", as well as on Montel Williams, "MSNBC's Scarborough Country". Locally, she has appeared on New York City's Fox 5, and Sirius radio. In 2006, Allison appeared in an episode of "Elimidate". [cite news | first= | last= | coauthors= | title=Meet our new dating scribe | date=May 10–16, 2007 | publisher= | url =http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/sex-dating/1558/meet-our-new-dating-scribe | work =Time Out New York | pages = | accessdate = 2008-06-17 | language = ] She was also on "Gawker"'s list of personalities of the year in 2006.cite web
url=http://gawker.com/news/top/gawkers-personalities-of-the-year-225097.php
title=Gawker's personalities of the year
accessdate=2008-01-14
first=Doree
date=2006-12-29
publisher=Gawker] In 2008, Allison appeared in an episode of CollegeHumor's "Hardly Working". [cite web
url=http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1798438
title=Hardly Working: Office Fantasy
accessdate=2008-01-22
date=2008-01-22
publisher=CollegeHumor] Allison is also pictured on the cover of the August, 2008 Wired Magazine.cite web
url=http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/magazine/16-08/howto_allison
title=Internet Famous: Julia Allison and the Secrets of Self-Promotion
accessdate=2008-07-23
date=2008-08
publisher=Wired (magazine)]

References

External links

* [http://www.JuliaAllison.com Official Website]
* [http://www.amny.com/entertainment/am-dating-gallery,0,7393245.storygallery "The Dating Life"]
* [http://www.timeoutny.com/newyork/ViewSection.do?sectionId=dating "Time Out New York" Column]
* [http://www.nypress.com/20/48/news&columns/feature.cfm The Faming Assholes, New York Press]
* [https://secure.washingtoncitypaper.com/cgi-bin/Archive/abridged2.bat?path=q:DocRoot/2004/040130/MEDIA30&search=hoya%20sexa&SearchString=hoya+sexa&AuthorLastName=&IssueDate=mm%2Fdd%2Fyyyy&SelectYear=All&next.x=28&next.y=14 Washington City Paper Profile]
* [http://mediabistro.com/articles/cache/a10131.asp Becoming Julia Allison, by Stephen Rodrick]