Alexander W. McCall: Portfolio

• “Why Safe Blood Transfusions Remain a Challenge for Many Countries” (Results for Development)

• “Notes on a Heat Wave” (Substack)

• “Sweet Distraction: Charting a Summer in Loss and Milk Bar Cookies” (Medium)

• “Feminism in a Run-Down Taffy Factory: The Women of ‘Bob’s Burgers’” (NPR)

• “Kooky Kickstarters — Why They Succeed” (NPR)

• “Startups Pitch Cricket Flour As The Best Protein You Could Eat” (NPR)

• “Where do we go from here? 5 ideas for reimagining global development” (Results for Development)

• “The future of international NGOs: Defining our role in locally led development” (Results for Development)

• “Want Stronger Hiring Outcomes? Follow This 3-Step Prescription” (Forbes)

• “Better Mental Health In The Workplace Begins With Honesty And Leadership” (Forbes)

• “Transparency Is The Missing Piece Of The Executive Search Process” (Forbes)

• “For Your DEI Initiative To Succeed, Remember Why It Matters” (Forbes)

Between 2016 and 2020, I pitched, booked, produced and edited 60+ segments for NPR newsmagazines as part of regular rotations on shows. Below are a few examples I’m particularly proud of:

• “Former Ohio State Students Report Decades Of Sexual Misconduct By University Physician” (All Things Considered)

  • Segment Booker & Editor

• “Death Toll Rises To 76 In California Wildfire” (Weekend Edition Sunday)

  • Segment Booker & Editor

• “Events Surrounding White Nationalist Rally In Charlottesville Turn Fatal” (Weekend Edition Saturday)

  • Live Segment Booker & Producer

• “Tropical Storm Harvey Causes Catastrophic Flooding In Texas” (Weekend Edition Saturday)

  • Live Segment Producer

• “What to Expect When Your Orangutans Are Expecting? Check Their Gift Registry” (Weekend Edition Saturday)

  • Segment Booker & Producer

• “Uber CEO Talks About What's Changed For The Company In The Last Year” (All Things Considered)

  • Segment Booker & Editor

• “A Cultural Movement And The Embrace Of Witchcraft By A Younger Generation” (Weekend Edition Sunday)

  • Segment Booker & Editor

• “Decades Later, 'Tales Of The City' Returns To A New San Francisco” (Weekend Edition Saturday)

  • Segment Editor

• “BuzzFeed Investigation Details Decades Of Systemic Child Abuse At Vermont Orphanage” (All Things Considered)

  • Segment Editor

• “Survivor Of Pennsylvania Clergy Sex Abuse Shares His Story” (All Things Considered)

  • Segment Booker & Editor

The following are select stories I reported for WFIU/WTIU News in 2014 and 2015:

• Democrats See South Bend Mayor Buttigieg As Rising Star (Indiana Public Media | YouTube )

• After RFRA, Rural Pride Festival Expects Strong Showing (Indiana Public Media | YouTube)

• New Hopes, Concerns Surface With Passage Of 'Right To Try' (Indiana Public Media | YouTube)

It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders

• “The Great Big Drag-isode”

• “‘The New Celebrity’: The Rise of Influencers — And How They Changed Advertising”

• “Instagram Is Reshaping How We Interact With Art And How Artists Create It”

• “Jeremy O. Harris On 'Slave Play'”

• “Actress Regina King On Living In The Spotlight And Having Difficult Conversations”

• “John Legend On The Music Industry, His Career, Politics And Balancing It All”

• “Kathy Griffin’s Life On The Blacklist”

• “Why ‘Queer Eye’s Jonathan Van Ness Wrote
  About His Trauma”

• “Jia Tolentino On The Internet, Optimization And Other Late Capitalist Woes”

Embedded with Kelly McEvers

• “Inside A Small Brick House At The Heart Of Indiana’s Opioid Crisis”

• “City, Interrupted: How Gang Killings Brought San Salvador To A Halt”

• “A 'War' On Wheels: The Biker Shootout At Waco,
  And What Came Next”

• “We Found Joy: An Addict Struggles To Get Treatment”

• “Police Videos Aren’t Going Away. What Can We Learn From Them?”

Pop Culture Happy Hour

• “Adam Goldman Of ‘The Outs’”

• “Lupita Nyong'o, 'TV: The Book,' 'Take My Wife'”

Podcasts

• All There Is with Anderson Cooper (CNN)

• Margins of Error with Harry Enten (CNN)

• Very Scary People with Donnie Wahlberg (CNN/HLN)

• CNN Five Things (CNN)

• When Diana Met with Aminatou Sow (CNN)

• How I Built This (NPR)

• Code Switch (NPR)

Click here to see selections from my social media and newsletter portfolio.