Jamie Allman

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Jamie Allman, is a journalist and radio host.

Allman was born and raised in University City, Missouri. He is the youngest of six children.

Allman always wanted to be in broadcasting and annoyed classmates by often speaking into a pencil pinched between the metal clips in his notebook. He attended college in Madison, Wisconsin where he was surrounded by lefties and covered music, movies and theater for the Badger Herald newspaper and the Wisconsin State Journal. He got his start in news at Wisconsin Public Radio, and upon graduation worked at AM Talker WTDY covering local and state politics. He then entered TV broadcasting and eventually made it back to St. Louis in 1989 for a job at KMOV-TV.

Allman has earned more Emmys than anyone in the history of local St. Louis TV. He has received fourteen Emmys for investigative and political reports as well as for writing. He has also earned five Edward R. Murrow Awards for excellence in broadcasting. He has been honored for his TV and community work by the St. Louis Jaycees and the Presswomen of Missouri. Between broadcasting stints he served as Director of Communications for the St. Louis Archdiocese and Archbishop Raymond Leo Burke. Jamie is co-host of Allman and Crane in the Morning on KFTK.

Allman has four children: Ethan, Katie, Aidan, and Natalie. He is married to Andrea.