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Allison Yarrow is an award-winning journalist and documentary film producer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, Vice, and many others. She is writing a book called 90s B*tch: The Decade That Made American Women (Harper Perennial, 2016).
As a documentary film producer with the Emmy Award winning Vice show on HBO, she investigated and produced the Vice News documentary, Misconception: The Fake Abortion Clinics of America, based on her 2014 Newsweek feature, The Abortion War’s Special Ops.
She is the author of the bestselling Kindle Single, The Devil of Williamsburg (Amazon, 2013), which probed a shocking sex abuse case that rocked an insular ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn and was named a Top Five Nonfiction eBook of 2013.
She covered gender, policy, races and candidates in the 2012 election at Newsweek and The Daily Beast (pre-divorce), hosted a web video series there on sex and politics and her investigative reporting project Roe v. Wade Turns 40 was recognized by the American Society of Magazine Editors in 2014.
Previously, as deputy editor of Forward.com, she created and hosted The Yid Lit Podcast, a series of author interviews available in iTunes. As an Associate Producer at NBC News Productions, she produced segments for the syndicated program, Your Total Health with Hoda Kotb, and longform documentaries for Dateline and MSNBC. She speaks publicly frequently and has appeared on The Today Show, MSNBC, NPR and more.
Rush Limbaugh once said of her, "this woman, she's upset."
Yarrow was raised in Macon, Georgia, and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
As a documentary film producer with the Emmy Award winning Vice show on HBO, she investigated and produced the Vice News documentary, Misconception: The Fake Abortion Clinics of America, based on her 2014 Newsweek feature, The Abortion War’s Special Ops.
She is the author of the bestselling Kindle Single, The Devil of Williamsburg (Amazon, 2013), which probed a shocking sex abuse case that rocked an insular ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn and was named a Top Five Nonfiction eBook of 2013.
She covered gender, policy, races and candidates in the 2012 election at Newsweek and The Daily Beast (pre-divorce), hosted a web video series there on sex and politics and her investigative reporting project Roe v. Wade Turns 40 was recognized by the American Society of Magazine Editors in 2014.
Previously, as deputy editor of Forward.com, she created and hosted The Yid Lit Podcast, a series of author interviews available in iTunes. As an Associate Producer at NBC News Productions, she produced segments for the syndicated program, Your Total Health with Hoda Kotb, and longform documentaries for Dateline and MSNBC. She speaks publicly frequently and has appeared on The Today Show, MSNBC, NPR and more.
Rush Limbaugh once said of her, "this woman, she's upset."
Yarrow was raised in Macon, Georgia, and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
