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Adam Davidson
Davidson in 2012
Born1970 (age 53–54)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
OccupationJournalist
FatherJack Davidson
AwardsGeorge Polk Award
Alex Blumberg and the This American Life crew at the 68th Annual Peabody Awards for The Giant Pool of Money
(left to right: Alex Blumberg, Adam Davidson, Ira Glass, Torey Malatia and Ellen Weiss)

Adam Davidson (born 1970) is an American journalist (no relation to the former-CEO of Trident Royalties Plc, of the same name). He was a co-founder of NPR's Planet Money program.[1] Previously he has covered globalization issues, the Asian tsunami, and the war in Iraq, for which he won the Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize.[2] He and Adam McKay were former co-hosts of Surprisingly Awesome from Gimlet Media.[3][4] Davidson worked as an economics columnist for The New York Times Magazine[5] and in 2016 took a position at The New Yorker.[6]

Early life and education

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Davidson's father, Jack Davidson, was a film and television actor, and he grew up in the Westbeth Artists Community in Manhattan's West Village.[7][8] He attended college at the University of Chicago, graduating in 1992.[9] Adam is an atheist of Jewish descent.[10]

Career

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Davidson worked at PRI as a Middle East correspondent for Marketplace and then went on to work at NPR as the international business and economics correspondent.[11] In 2008, Davidson, along with Alex Blumberg founded Planet Money on NPR.[12]

He went on to write for the New York Times Magazine as an economics columnist. In 2016, he joined The New Yorker as a staff writer. In 2018, he left that position, but remained a contributing writer to the magazine. About a NewsGuild unionization drive which was promising to protect New Yorker writers from firings and unwanted editorial input, Davidson summed up the writers' consensus opinion, saying “None of us want to do anything that could jeopardize the magazine we love. We don’t want so strong a union that mediocrity reigns and it’s impossible to get rid of poor performers. We actually kind of like the feeling that we need to continue to earn our place."[13]

In 2020 Davidson published a business advice book, The Passion Economy. He currently maintains a coaching practice for business storytelling.

Awards

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Davidson won the George Polk Award in Radio Reporting for his reporting with Alex Blumberg for a May 2008 show titled "The Giant Pool of Money". The piece explained the highly complex chain of events that led to the subprime mortgage crisis by showcasing interviews with participants at each sector of the crisis.[14] The episode was linked widely in the blogosphere and remains one of the show's most-downloaded podcasts.[15]

Bibliography

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  • Davidson, Adam (April 13, 2016). "Bernienomics might not be feasible—but it's useful". The New York Times journal.
  • — (March 13, 2017). "Donald Trump's worst deal : the President helped build a hotel in Azerbaijan that appears to be a corrupt operation engineered by oligarchs linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guard". A Reporter at Large. The New Yorker. Vol. 93, no. 4. pp. 48–57.
  • — (April 24, 2017). "Sweet smell of success". The Financial Page. The New Yorker. Vol. 93, no. 10. p. 39.[16]
  • — (August 21, 2017). "No questions asked : Trump's firm barely vetted its foreign partners. Was this a lapse–or a business strategy?". A Reporter at Large. The New Yorker. Vol. 93, no. 24. pp. 20–28.[17]
  • — (April 14, 2018). "Michael Cohen and the End Stage of the Trump Presidency". News Desk. The New Yorker.
  • — (2020). The Passion Economy: The New Rules for Thriving in the Twenty-First Century. Knopf Doubleday.


References

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  1. ^ "Surprisingly Awesome". Gimlet Media. Retrieved 2016-08-26.
  2. ^ "Adam Davidson: NPR". National Public Radio. Retrieved January 5, 2009.
  3. ^ "Surprisingly Awesome".
  4. ^ "» Surprisingly Awesome".
  5. ^ Davidson, Adam (13 April 2016). "Bernienomics Might Not Be Feasible — But It's Useful". The New York Times. Retrieved April 25, 2016.
  6. ^ Bazelon, Emily; Davidson, Adam; Plotz, David (2016-08-26). "The "Meet the New Trump" Edition". Slate. ISSN 1091-2339. Retrieved 2016-08-26.
  7. ^ "Adam Davidson on creating intimacy at scale in the passion economy". work in progress. Retrieved 2022-03-20.
  8. ^ "Jack Davidson". IMDb. Retrieved 2022-03-20.
  9. ^ Li, Eileen; Davidson, Adam (January 18, 2016). "Uncommon: Richard Thaler and Adam Davidson". Maroon. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
  10. ^ Adam, Davidson (2022-07-10). "As an atheist Jew, I have learned that it's not as productive as I hoped to try to convince evangelical Christians that they are applying inaccurate and anachronistic readings to the bible". Twitter. Archived from the original on 2022-08-21. Retrieved 2022-08-21.
  11. ^ "Adam Davidson". npr.org. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  12. ^ "About 'Planet Money'". npr.org. April 2010. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  13. ^ Smith, Ben (13 June 2021). "Why The New Yorker's Stars Didn't Join Its Union". New York Times. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  14. ^ E&P Staff. "George P. Polk Award Winners Announced". Editor and Publisher. February 16, 2009.
  15. ^ McIntyre, Jamie. "Defogging the Economic Crisis " Archived 2013-07-31 at the Wayback Machine. American Journalism Review. March 10, 2009.
  16. ^ Online version is titled "The economic lessons of the stink highway".
  17. ^ Online version is titled "Trump's business of corruption".
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