Allison Gilbert

Career

Social health and connection

Gilbert hosts 92NY's Connected Lives series and her most recent book, The Joy of Connections, was named one of the 10 best well-being books for 2024 by Audible and named one of The Best Books and Podcasts in 2024 About Aging and Retirement by The Wall Street Journal.

Gilbert has written for or been featured in many publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today. Gilbert has been interviewed on Good Morning America, NPR, TED Radio Hour, and more.

Grief and September 11 attacks

Gilbert was a journalist covering the September 11 attacks and went on to co-edit Covering Catastrophe: Broadcast Journalists Report September 11, a historical record of how broadcast journalists covered the attacks. Gilbert is the official narrator of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum’s historical exhibition audio tour and her voice is introduced by Robert De Niro on the museum's “Witnessing History” tour. She is the co-executive producer of the documentary Reporting 9/11 and Why It Still Matters and host of the companion 20-part documentary series Women Journalists of 9/11: Their Stories, produced in collaboration with the National September 11 Memorial & Museum and Wondrium for the 20th anniversary of 9/11. These projects include interviews with journalists such as Savannah Guthrie, Maggie Haberman, Scott Pelley, Byron Pitts, Dana Bash, and Linda Wertheimer.

Gilbert has written or reported on grief for The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The TODAY Show, CNN, and more.

TV news

Allison Gilbert started her career in TV news. At CNN, Gilbert produced TV segments and wrote stories for CNN.com. Before CNN, she was a special projects producer at WABC-TV and an investigative producer at WNBC-TV.