Allison Cross is an award-winning multimedia journalist from Canada with experience at the country's biggest newspapers. She works as a digital reporter and editor for the National Post.
She has worked as a reporter with the Toronto Star, the largest daily newspaper in Canada. Before that, she worked 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.
In 2009, 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.
Also in 2009, she went to Hong Kong and 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 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 online media about 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. Allison enjoys amateur photography and loves to travel. If you'd like to chat, visit the Contact page. Allison is also on Twitter and Flickr.