Alessandra Stanley Bio | Wiki
Alessandra Stanley is an American journalist. She co-founded a weekly newsletter called Air Mail “for worldly cosmopolitan” alongside former Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Graydon Carter in 2019. After college, Alessandra worked in Los Angeles and in Washington, D.C. where she covered the White House. Later, she moved to The New York Times where she worked as a foreign correspondent.
She at first served as a co-chief of their Moscow bureau and then Rome bureau chief. Alessandra became the chief television critic for The New York Times in 2003. Apart from that, she wrote for The New York Times Magazine, GQ, The New Republic, and Vogue. Alessandra received The Matrix Award in 1993 from Women in Communications.
In 1998, she won the Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting. Among her notable columns is her assessment of Jerry Sandusky’s denial of charges of pedophilia to NBC, her critical take on the series finale of The Sopranos, as well as her coverage of Russian television on the eve of the 2012 Russian presidential election.
Alessandra Stanley Age
She was born on October 3, 1955, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Alessandra is 66 years old.
Alessandra Stanley Height
She is a woman of average stature. Alessandra stands at a height of 5 ft 5 in ( Approx a.65m).
Alessandra Stanley Family
She was born to her parents in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Washington, D.C., and Europe. Alessandra’s father was a defense adviser to NATO Timothy W. Stanley. However, she has not shared much about her family (Including her mother and her siblings).
Alessandra Stanley Husband
She married her now Ex-husband Michael Specter. Michael is a 67-year-old American journalist who, since September 1998 has been a staff writer, focusing on science and technology, and global public health at The New Yorker. The two shared a baby girl called Emma. Currently, Alessandra lives in New York City with her daughter.
Alessandra Stanley Education
She enrolled at Harvard University immediately after her high school education and studied literature. Then, Alessandra became a correspondent for Time and she worked overseas, in Los Angeles, and in Washington, D.C.
Alessandra Stanley Katie Couric
On April 25, 2005, Alessandra published an article titled ‘Today’ Seeks Yesterday’s Glory about the 65-year-old American journalist, presenter, producer, and author called Katherine Anne Couric ( Katie Couric). Alessandra wrote ” Something has to be very wrong with NBC’s “Today” if viewers are turning to ABC’s Diane Sawyer as a refreshingly wholesome, down-to-earth alternative.” In her article, she revealed that Katie had reigned as the Everywoman of morning television. for over a decade and NBC considered her so critical to restoring the pre-eminence of “Today” following the 2001 disaster known as Deborah Norville. The network had given Katie a $60 million contract over four-and-a-half years to keep her from defecting.
Alessandra Stanley New York Times
She left New York Times in 2017. Alessandra taught a class at Princeton University called “Investigative Viewing: The Art of Television Criticism” in the fall of 2011 described as an “intensive introduction to criticism as it is undertaken at the highest level of a cultural institution”. The accuracy of her reporting has been criticized by several news and media organizations, including the Times. The September 5, 2005, piece on Hurricane Katrina, July 18, 2009, retrospective on the career of Walter Cronkite that contained errors, and the 2005 article that mistakenly called the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond “All About Raymond,” are some of Alessandra’s articles that have been criticized.
In August 2009, an article that examined the mistakes in the Cronkite piece by the Times’s public editor Clark Hoyt, described Alessandra as “much admired by editors for the intellectual heft of her coverage of television” but “with a history of errors”. However, the executive editor Bill Keller defended Alessandra, saying “She is — in my opinion, among others — a brilliant critic”. Her New York Times review of Julian Assange’s television debut was described in April 2012 by Salon contributor Glenn Greenwald as “revealing, reckless snideness” and “cowardly”.
Alessandra Stanley Viola Davis
Viola Davis is a 56-year-old American actress. who was born on August 11, 1965, in St. Matthews, South Carolina, United States. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Tony Awards. Viola is the only African-American to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting. Times Magazine named Alessandra as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2012 and 2017. Alessandra is Caucasian and she wrote an article for The New York Times titled “Wrought in Rhimes’s Image: Viola Davis Plays Shonda Rhimes’s Latest Tough Heroine” in September 2014.
The article was about the television series titled How to Get Away with Murder and the career of Shonda Rhimes, its African-American producer. Alessandra wrote, “When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called ‘How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman.” Alessandra made comments about African-Americans that were seen as offensive. The Times’s Public Editor, Margaret Sullivan wrote “struck many readers as completely off-base. Many called it offensive, while some went further, saying it was racist”. Alessandra defended her piece by writing in an email message to Talking Points Memo.
Alessandra Stanley Net Worth
From her journalism career, Alessandra has managed to accumulate an estimated net worth of $2,684,672.
How Old Is Alessandra Stanley
Alessandra is 66 years old. She was born on October 3, 1955, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Is Alessandra Stanley Married
She married her now Ex-husband Michael Specter. The two shared a baby girl called Emma. Currently, Alessandra lives in New York City with her daughter.