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Allison Yarrow is a writer, editor and multimedia journalist. She is at work on an Amazon Kindle Single ebook about a sex abuse trial in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and a contributor at the Newsweek Daily Beast Company.
Allison was previously assignment editor and staff writer at the Newsweek Daily Beast Company, covering the intersection of health and politics, the 2012 election, women, culture and religion. She profiled the governor of the only state with an all-woman Congressional delegation and governor, covered sexual and reproductive health policy and broke news about the record number of gay politicians running for office, immigration and healthcare reform. She reported and assembled a data visualization story package which for the first time mapped access to the country’s remaining abortion clinics. Allison also unearthed a network of religious sex toy purveyors and profiled American Judaism's first black woman rabbi.
She hosted a weekly Beast TV web series on sex, gender and politics and appears on television and radio to discuss her stories.
Her essays and journalism have appeared in Newsweek, The Daily Beast, The Atlantic, Slate, CNN.com, Huffington Post, Poets & Writers magazine and The Forward. She was formerly deputy editor of the award-winning website of the Forward newspaper, Forward.com, and the creator and host of the Yid Lit podcast, which interviewed authors of literary fiction and nonfiction, and is available on forward.com and iTunes.
Previously, as an Associate Producer at NBC News Productions, Allison produced health, celebrity and philanthropy segments for a nationally syndicated program hosted by Hoda Kotb, and long-form documentary hours for MSNBC. She volunteers as a curriculum chair for a program of professional writers mentoring at-risk high school girls, Girls Write Now.
Allison was previously assignment editor and staff writer at the Newsweek Daily Beast Company, covering the intersection of health and politics, the 2012 election, women, culture and religion. She profiled the governor of the only state with an all-woman Congressional delegation and governor, covered sexual and reproductive health policy and broke news about the record number of gay politicians running for office, immigration and healthcare reform. She reported and assembled a data visualization story package which for the first time mapped access to the country’s remaining abortion clinics. Allison also unearthed a network of religious sex toy purveyors and profiled American Judaism's first black woman rabbi.
She hosted a weekly Beast TV web series on sex, gender and politics and appears on television and radio to discuss her stories.
Her essays and journalism have appeared in Newsweek, The Daily Beast, The Atlantic, Slate, CNN.com, Huffington Post, Poets & Writers magazine and The Forward. She was formerly deputy editor of the award-winning website of the Forward newspaper, Forward.com, and the creator and host of the Yid Lit podcast, which interviewed authors of literary fiction and nonfiction, and is available on forward.com and iTunes.
Previously, as an Associate Producer at NBC News Productions, Allison produced health, celebrity and philanthropy segments for a nationally syndicated program hosted by Hoda Kotb, and long-form documentary hours for MSNBC. She volunteers as a curriculum chair for a program of professional writers mentoring at-risk high school girls, Girls Write Now.
