Alison MacAdam

Alison works part time as a story editor for The New Yorker Radio Hour. She spent 15 years at NPR, working as a producer and Senior Editor for All Things Considered and as NPR's audio storytelling trainer. Since leaving the network in 2018, she has edited multiple podcasts including Believed (Peabody, DuPont-Columbia awards), Code Switch, Land of the Giants, and Latino USA. She’s in her happy place when she’s helping people tell great stories — or chasing the ball on a soccer field.

Alison MacAdam appears in the following:

The online communities pushing Black male voters to the right

Wednesday, October 30, 2024

The manosphere is a sprawling online ecosystem aimed at disgruntled men. Now a subset of the manosphere aimed at Black men is exposing cracks in Black voters' steadfast support of Democrats. On this episode, we take a look at how the Black manosphere came to be and wonder: could this loose community of aggrieved dudes swing the election?

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The 2 Goals That Gave The U.S. The Win Over Germany

Wednesday, July 01, 2015

A 2-0 win over Germany on Tuesday night gave the U.S. a place in the Women's World Cup final.

You can construct a lot of hero narratives around last night's game: The American defense is unstoppable. (Julie Johnston has been a breakout player.) Midfielder Carli Lloyd owns ...

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