Adam Davidson (journalist)

Adam Davidson
Davidson in 2012
Born1970 (age 5455)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
OccupationJournalist
FatherJack Davidson
AwardsGeorge Polk Award

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 globalization issues, the Asian tsunami, and the war in Iraq, 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 The New York Times Magazine and in 2016 took a position at The New Yorker.