Adelina Lancianese
Adelina Lancianese is senior producer for the Embedded podcast, NPR's home for audio documentary storytelling, where she has produced series such as We Keep Us Safe, A Good Guy, and the Peabody-nominated Supermajority.
Formerly, she produced Love Commandos, which chronicled forbidden love in India, as part of her tenure as senior producer for the NPR show Rough Translation. Other stories she produced there transported listeners to a trucker's cab, a Ukrainian garden, a Swedish dance floor, and helped earn the show a 2022 Sigma Delta Chi Award for Travel Journalism.
Lancianese has also produced NPR shows like Weekend Edition, I'll Be Seeing You, Invisibilia, On Our Watch, and Louder Than A Riot, which won honorable mention at the ABA Silver Gavel Awards.
Lancianese came to NPR as a 2017 Kroc Fellow. During the fellowship, she helped produce an investigation into black lung disease among coal miners, which won an Edward R. Murrow Award and was nominated for both a Peabody and an Emmy.
She's a graduate of Georgetown University, born and raised in West Virginia.
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Former coal miner Jack Horne of Kentucky died last week from advanced black lung disease at the age of 66. Horne was featured last year in an NPR and PBS Frontline investigation into the epidemic.
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The U.S. has lost more than 120,000 people since the coronavirus started sickening Americans five months ago. Here we remember a few of those who continued working during the pandemic, serving others. -
A year after fans filled the streets of Los Angeles to celebrate the life of Nipsey Hussle, fans take to the Internet to remember his legacy. -
One of the worst industrial disasters in American history is a forgotten example of the dangers of silica, the toxic dust behind the modern black lung epidemic in Appalachia. -
As the planet loses mild weather days because of climate change, wedding professionals are devising creative ways to keep cakes fresh and guests cool. -
Teachers can spend hundreds, sometimes thousands, of their own money on school supplies for their classrooms. In Baltimore, there's a way for teachers to shop for free.
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Service dog providers are developing registries that airlines and other travel companies could use to verify the legitimacy of service dogs for veterans with psychological disabilities. -
The cluster, found in central Appalachia and first reported by NPR, indicates that a disease once thought to be on the decline is still a common killer among coal miners. -
Poppy is an Internet phenom, known for her strange YouTube videos and her Japan-inspired bubblegum pop. She and her director, Titanic Sinclair, talk with Scott Simon about who, or what, Poppy is. -
Haunted attractions can spend the money on great, gory props, but when it comes to being scary, nothing beats properly trained employees. At Cox Farms just outside of Washington, D.C., the preparation for the Fields of Fear includes scare training.
