Julia Allison

Julia Allison is an American journalist, the editor-at-large for Star and a columnist for Time Out New York. She appears on the cable networks CNN, MSNBC and Fox Business frequently. She was the author of a weekly social column entitled "The Dating Life" which appeared in AM New York. Allison is originally from Wilmette, a northern suburb of Chicago.

Collegiate Life
In college, Allison wrote the dating column "Sex on the Hilltop," for Georgetown University's newspaper, "The Hoya". She left the paper with "ethical clouds hanging over" the column. Allison, then using her given last name "Baugher," was accused by a member of the newspaper's staff of plagiarizing an article from an online source. Allison and the newspaper split ways after it was concluded that she did not plagiarize.

She also worked as a full-time legislative correspondent for Illinois Republican Congressman Mark Kirk in the 107th Congress as well as in his 2000 campaign. In 2004, Allison graduated from Georgetown University.

Political controversy
Allison has been romantically linked with former Tennessee Congressman Harold Ford, Jr., a Democrat, in 2002. Her relationship was used as an attack ad by the National Republican Senatorial Committee in Ford's unsuccessful run for United States Senate in 2006. In response, she commented on the experience, and wrote about the relationship in a July 2006 Cosmopolitan article (and concealed Ford's name). Consequently, some of her comments were read aloud by Rush Limbaugh on his nationwide conservative talk radio show.

Present Day
In addition to writing for Time Out New York, she had a monthly column in Co-ed magazine and has written for a variety of magazines, including Cosmopolitan, Maxim, New York, Teen Vogue, Men's Health, Seventeen, and Capitol File. She also does party coverage for the Huffington Post.

She appears occasionally on the Fox Business show Happy Hour, which takes place in a bar. She appears weekly on CNN's Showbiz Tonight, and CNN's Glenn Beck, and has appeared on Montel Williams, MSNBC's Scarborough Country, on New York City's Fox 5, and Sirius radio. In 2006, Allison appeared in an episode of Elimidate. She was also a Gawker "Personality of the Year" in 2006. Currently, Allison lives in New York City.