MaryAlice Parks Biography
MaryAlice Parks is a well known American weekend White House correspondent reporting across all ABC News programs as well as platforms, such as “Good Morning America,” “World News Tonight along with David Muir,” “Nightline,” “20/20,” “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” ABC News Live, ABC News.com as well as ABC Audio. Regularly, she publishes her own reporting as well as analysis on ABC News websites and is a frequent contributor on the “Start Here” podcast.
Previously, she held the role of deputy political director based in the Washington Bureau. In this position, Park co-authored the network’s daily political newsletter “The Note” for 3 years and served as a senior manager assisting to oversee the national political coverage for the network.
Parks played an instrumental role in crafting ABC News coverage of the year 2020 presidential election. She contributed to hiring as well as managing the network’s largest and most diverse team of campaign embeds and served with the special events as well as booking teams alongside correspondents and anchors around the country on election night coverage. Parks also had a significant editorial role in ABC News debates and town halls throughout the election season.
Parks started her career at ABC News in the year 2013 as a Frank Reynolds Fellow, then, she continued with the Washington Bureau as a segment producer for “This Week along with George Stephanopoulos.” In the spring of the year 2019, she made her debut on the show’s roundtable; she has the unique experience of being a guest and showrunner, and interim executive producer for the program. Parks also worked as a campaign reporter for the network during the year 2016 election cycle and also, she was the first network reporter delegated to cover U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders’ bid for the White House.
While working at ABC News, Parks covered Capitol Hill, various breaking news stories out of Washington and worked as the supervising producer on the three-day network special “Pandemic: A Nation Divided,” which examined the racial/ethnic as well as socioeconomic disparities amid the coronavirus pandemic coast-to-coast.
