Press release | Center for Investigative Reporting
The Center for Investigative Reporting, which produces Mother Jones and Reveal, today announced the hiring of podcast innovator Kara McGuirk-Allison as senior radio editor. She is the founding producer of NPR’s Hidden Brain and in her new position will develop new programs aimed at Reveal’s podcast audience.
“Kara’s creativity and industry expertise are exactly what we need to bring more of our journalism to an even wider audience each week,” said James West, CIR’s editor-in-chief. “She’s a true producer and I’m excited to see what audio magic she will unleash for our listeners.”
Reveal launched in 2013 as a weekly radio show and podcast, reaching about one million weekly listeners on more than 500 stations nationwide. The podcast is downloaded an additional 500,000 times per month. To meet the growing demand from its listeners, Reveal will expand its programming to offer more ways to hear Reveal’s journalistic style in its podcast feeds, leveraging the combined resources of the newly merged Mother Jones and Reveal newsrooms.
Before joining the reader- and listener-supported Center for Investigative Reporting, McGuirk-Allison was a senior producer at Marvel/Disney, overseeing shows such as “This Week in Marvel.” In addition to producing and releasing “Hidden Brain” in 2015 for NPR, McGuirk-Allison also produced for NPR news programs and NPR’s “Justice Talking,” a weekly radio show that covered law and public policy.
She is a member of the Podcast Academy and the Association of Independents in Radio, and her work has received numerous awards, including the Kavli Science Journalism Awards for an episode of “Hidden Brain,” several Gracie Awards, and a Webby. McGuirk-Allison lives in Annapolis, Maryland.
About the Center for Investigative Reporting:
The Center for Investigative Reporting is a nonprofit, multimedia investigative news organization that is home to two nationally recognized brands: Mother Jones, the magazine founded in 1976, and Reveal, the radio show and podcast launched in 2013. Together they reach millions of people each month through websites, newsletters, radio, podcasts, print, social media, video and documentaries. For more information, visit www.motherjones.com or www.revealnews.org.
