Ali Vitali (born March 22, 1990) is an American journalist, television analyst, and author.

Early life

Ali Vitali was born on March 22, 1990 to Lou and Angela Vitali. She grew up in

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with a younger sister. Vitali majored in Political Science and Communications with a minor in English and graduated as a Magna Cum Laude Presidential Scholar with Department Honors in 2012 from

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Career

In 2012, Vitali was a Production and Development Assistant at

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. She worked at Sweet Lemon Media (2012–14) as VP and Managing Editor. Vitali covered the

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and was a

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. Vitali was an embedded journalist on the

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, helping to inform her book ''Electable.'' She also covered the Amy Klobuchar 2020 campaign, and Michael Bloomberg 2020 campaign. She has served as a Capitol Hill correspondent with NBC News and has appeared as a panelist on ''

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''. In December 2024,

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announced that Vitali would anchor MSNBC's early morning news program ''Way Too Early'' starting in January 2025.

Works

* ''Electable: Why America Hasn’t Put A Woman In The White House…Yet,'' Dey Street Books, 2022.

References

External links

* 1990 births 21st-century American women journalists 21st-century American journalists 21st-century American women writers Living people MSNBC people NBC News people Tulane University alumni {{US-journalist-stub