Emily D’Alberto is a Vice President at Mercury’s Westfield, New Jersey office. She provides public relations and strategic communications to corporate clients. Emily has extensive experience on both sides of the wall between politics and media. She has spent over a decade in television news covering some of the seminal stories of our time: the September 11th attacks, Hurricane Katrina and the 2000 and 2008 presidential elections. She booked interviews with cabinet level officials, presidential candidates and sitting members of Congress.

Prior to joining Mercury, Emily was a producer at CNN’s flagship morning program, American Morning. She worked directly with the show’s anchors producing interviews and content for the live broadcast. Emily was in the field for major news events like the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton, the Tucson Shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the BP oil spill and the inauguration of President Barack Obama. She was part of the coverage teams that earned CNN a George Foster Peabody award for its BP oil spill and Hurricane Katrina coverage.

Leading up to the 2008 elections, Emily left CNN to work on Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s presidential campaign, managing the television and surrogate operation. Emily prepared the campaign’s key representatives to speak on behalf of the campaign to the news media. She worked with the rapid response, policy and political teams to help manage and communicate the campaign’s message.

Emily got her start in the news business at MSNBC where she worked at MSNBC’s Washington Bureau coordinating guest interviews, concentrating primarily on the September 11th attacks and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. She joined CNN in 2002 as a guest producer for the political debate program Crossfire.

Emily has a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.