Candy Alt Crowley (b. 26 December 1948 in Michigan) is an American television journalist.

Crowley is CNN's award-winning senior political correspondent based in the network's Washington, D.C., bureau. In this position, Crowley covers a broad range of stories, including presidential, congressional and gubernatorial races and major legislative developments on Capitol Hill. Previously, Crowley was a congressional correspondent for the network. She came to CNN from NBC News in 1987. She hosted Inside Politics in place of Judy Woodruff before the show was replaced with The Situation Room hosted by Wolf Blitzer.

Crowley began her broadcast journalism career in Washington, D.C., as a newsroom assistant for Metromedia radio station WASH. She has served as an anchor for Mutual Broadcasting and as a general assignment and White House correspondent for the Associated Press, where she covered most of the Reagan era before moving on to NBC-TV to become a general assignment correspondent in NBC's Washington bureau.

In 2005, Crowley was honored with the Joan Shorenstein Barone Award for excellence in journalism for her reporting on the 2004 presidential election.

In 2004, Crowley won the Gracie Allen Award in the National News Story-Series category for "War Stories" and a National Headliner and a Cine award for "Fit to Kill."

In 2003, Crowley won an Emmy for her work on CNN Presents' "Enemy Within." She won the 1999 DuPont-Columbia University Silver Baton Award for her coverage of the impeachment and trial of President Bill Clinton.

She won the 2003 and 1998 Dirksen Award for distinguished reporting on Congress from the National Press Foundation and the 1997 Joan Shorenstein Barone Award for Excellence in Journalism for her coverage of Bob Dole's campaign for the presidency.

She received the Associated Press Broadcasters' Award for spot news reporting for her coverage of the Reagan campaign, as well as the AP Award for in-depth coverage of the 1980 Reagan campaign.

Her reporting on more than a dozen 1992 U.S. Senate campaigns was runner-up for the Joan Shorenstein Barone Award for Outstanding Journalism.

Crowley also won the Columbia University's Armstrong Award for Freedom is My Woman, a documentary on a prison cellblock takeover.

She graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia with a degree in Mathematics.

Candy is known to be off-camera friends with CNN anchor Anderson Cooper.