Allison Cross is an award-winning multimedia journalist from Canada. She currently works as a breaking news and national affairs reporter for Postmedia News (formerly Canwest News Service) in Ottawa, Ontario.
In early 2010, Allison went on assignment for Canwest News Service with the Canadian military aboard HMCS Fredericton, a warship patrolling the waters off the coasts of Yemen and Somalia.
She has worked and produced content for many Canadian news outlets, including the Vancouver Sun, the Globe and Mail, The Tyee and Canada Wide Magazines.
Last year she spent five months in Sierra Leone in West Africa, where she freelanced and did media development work for the Canadian organization Journalists for Human Rights.
In early 2009, she went to China to help film a documentary about the global trade of electronic waste, which aired on the PBS show Frontline/World in late June 2009. The documentary was nominated for two Emmy Awards — Outstanding Investigative Reporting and Outstanding Research. The documentary also won the 2010 Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award in Journalism. Along with a team of nine other producers who worked on the documentary, Allison was named as a finalist for the 2009 Livingston Award for Young Journalists in International Reporting.
While working as a reporter and photographer at the Nanaimo Daily News on Vancouver Island, Allison was nominated for a 2007 Jack Webster Award in Community Reporting for her work on a series about fertility and reproductive technology. She was also the recipient of the Jack Webster Student Journalism Award that same year. In 2009, Allison was nominated for the Canadian Association of Journalists Student Award of Excellence.
Her interests include print, documentary and interactive online media that addresses health care, humanitarian issues, foreign policy, youth activism, women's rights and gender.
Allison has a master's degree in journalism from the University of British Columbia and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in English literature from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. At the Queen's Journal, one of the longest-running student publications in North America, Allison served as staff writer, assistant news editor and opinions editor.
Allison enjoys amateur photography. She loves to travel and has visited Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Sierra Leone, Australia, New Zealand, France, England, Oman, Egypt and the U.S.A.
If you'd like to chat, visit the Contact page. Allison is also on Twitter and Flickr.