Ali Vitali
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Ali Vitali | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 22, 1990 |
| Education | Tulane University (BA) |
| Occupation | Journalist |
Ali Vitali (born March 22, 1990) is an American broadcast journalist and author.
Ali Vitali was born on March 22,[1] 1990[2] to Lou and Angela Vitali. She grew up in Briarcliff Manor, New York with a younger sister.[1]
Vitali enrolled at Tulane University, in which she was a double major in political science and communications and a minor in English. In 2012, she graduated as a magna cum laude presidential scholar with departmental honors.[2][3]
Career
In 2011, Vitali interned for NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. A year later, she joined ABC News as a production and development assistant. In 2013, she left ABC News to join Sweet Lemon Media, an online lifestyle magazine, where she served as vice president and managing editor until 2014.[2]
Meanwhile, Vitali joined NBC News in 2012. Within their division, she joined MSNBC as a multimedia editor and then became a graphics producer for The Cycle.[2]
In July 2015, Vitali was selected as a political campaign embed reporter for NBC News, covering the 2016 United States presidential campaign.[4] While reporting on Donald Trump's 2016 presidential run, she told her alma mater: "I like to think of my day as a list of things I can do to best tell a story. I shoot video, write for NBCNews.com, tweet, Snapchat and report on-air — embeds wear so many hats on the road. Some days I'm doing all of those things in the span of a few hours, but it's always something new, which makes every day an adventure."[5]
During the first Trump administration, Vitali served as a White House reporter for NBC News Digital. In 2018, Vitali moved from covering the White House to monitor the 2018 midterm elections.[6][7]
For the 2020 United States presidential election, Vitali covered the Democratic presidential primary campaigns of Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar, and Michael Bloomberg.[6] In September 2021, Vitali was named as the Capitol Hill correspondent for NBC News.[8]
In 2022, Vitali published her first book Electable: Why America Hasn't Put A Woman In The White House...Yet, which grew from her coverage of Warren, Klobuchar, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Kamala Harris's 2020 presidential campaigns.[9][10]
In December 2024, it was reported that Vitali would anchor MSNBC's early morning news program Way Too Early starting in January 2025, replacing Jonathan Lemire, who moved to co-host Morning Joe's 9 a.m. hour.[11] In August 2025, Vitali was named as the network's senior Capitol Hill correspondent.[12]
