Alex Blumberg and the This American Life crew at the 68th Annual Peabody Awards for The Giant Pool of Money

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. Previously he has covered

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issues, the Asian tsunami, and the

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, for which he won the Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize. He and Adam McKay were former co-hosts of Surprisingly Awesome from Gimlet Media. Davidson worked as an economics columnist for ''

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'' and in 2016 took a position at ''

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Early life and education

Davidson's father, Jack Davidson, was a film and television actor, and he grew up in the Westbeth Artists Community in Manhattan's

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. He attended college at the

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, graduating in 1992. Adam is an atheist of Jewish descent.

Career

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. In 2008, Davidson, along with Alex Blumberg founded '' Planet Money'' on NPR. 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." In 2020 Davidson published a business advice book, The Passion Economy. He currently maintains a coaching practice for business storytelling.

Awards

Davidson won the

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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. The episode was linked widely in the blogosphere and remains one of the show's most-downloaded podcasts.

Bibliography

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