Liz Alesse is an accomplished media executive with 20 years of
experience in television, radio and podcasting. She currently serves
as vice president of ABC Audio at ABC News.

Throughout her career, Alesse has managed editorial teams, developed
and implemented content strategies across linear and digital
platforms, and produced live broadcasts from the field and the control
room, including major presidential campaign events and breaking news
coverage.

She began her broadcast career in local television news at Capital
News 9 in her hometown of Albany, New York, before moving to Boston,
where she worked at New England Cable News (NECN) and in the local
newsroom of NPR and PBS member station WGBH. She joined ABC News in
early 2015 serving as coordinating producer and interim executive
producer of “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” and later
moving into a leadership role on the reporting team that covers the
White House and Capitol Hill.

In 2020, Alesse was tapped to lead ABC News’ growing podcast
enterprise, which includes the network’s flagship daily news
podcast, “Start Here.” In 2022, her purview was expanded to
include ABC News Radio, the nation’s largest commercial radio
network, boasting more than 1,500 affiliates and digital distributors.

Alesse has been named one of the Most Influential Women in Radio by
Radio Ink Magazine two years running and appeared on the May 2024
cover. Under her leadership, ABC Audio has won numerous radio and
podcast awards, including 13 Edward R. Murrow Awards.

Alesse is a graduate of the University of Richmond, where she studied
English literature and history.
