Ali Vitali

Ali Vitali (born March 22, 1990) is an American broadcast journalist and author.

Early life Ali Vitali was born on March 22, 1990 to Lou and Angela Vitali. She grew up in Briarcliff Manor, New York with a younger sister.

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. 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."

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.

For the 2020 United States presidential election, Vitali covered the Democratic presidential primary campaigns of Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar, and Michael Bloomberg.

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.

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 Joes 9 a.m. hour. In August 2025, Vitali was named as the network's senior Capitol Hill correspondent.

Works Electable: Why America Hasn't Put A Woman In The White House...Yet, Dey Street Books, 2022.