Lylah M. Alphonse

Lylah M. Alphonse (born 1972, Princeton, New Jersey) is an American journalist.

Family and life

Her mother is a Parsi from India and her father is from Haiti. The eldest of three children, Alphonse attended Princeton Day School.

A graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University,[1] she was inducted to the Newhouse School's Alumni Hall of Fame in 2000.[2]

Career

In 1994, she began working as an editor at The Boston Globe newspaper in Boston, where she eventually became a member of the newspaper's Sunday magazine staff.[3] She also wrote frequently for their Travel,[4] Food,[5] National & Foreign News, and Living/Arts[6] sections. She has also been Consulting Editor for the Fezana Journal,[7] Managing Editor at Work It, Mom!,[8] and Senior Editor and Writer at Yahoo.com,[9] where she covered news, parenting trends, health, women's issues,[10] and politics and interviewed first lady Michelle Obama,[11] presidential advisor Valerie Jarrett,[12] and others.

She became the Managing Editor for Special Reports at U.S. News & World Report in June 2013, and was promoted to Managing Editor for News a year later.[13][14]

Ms. Alphonse formerly wrote the blog The 36-Hour Day blog[15] and Write. Edit. Repeat.,[16] is the author of "Triumph Over Discrimination: The Life Story of Farhang Mehr"[17] (ISBN 0-9709937-0-6), and has contributed articles to Our Times (5th edition, Bedford Books, 1998) and Interactions: A Thematic Reader (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1999).[18]

References

  1. ↑
  2. ↑
  3. ↑ About the Globe Magazine - The Boston Globe
  4. ↑ Globe-trotting - The Boston Globe
  5. ↑ Food - Boston.com
  6. ↑ Books - The Boston Globe Book Reviews and Best Sellers Lists - Boston.com
  7. ↑ FEZANA - Fezana Journal
  8. ↑ Working Mothers | Working Moms Community - Work It, Mom!
  9. ↑
  10. ↑
  11. ↑
  12. ↑
  13. ↑
  14. ↑
  15. ↑ Balancing Work and Family Blog - The 36-Hour Day - Work It, Mom!
  16. ↑ http://writeeditrepeat.blogspot.com/p/about-lylah.html
  17. ↑ http://www.amazon.com/Triumph-Over-Discrimination-Story-Farhang/dp/0970993706
  18. ↑ Write. Edit. Repeat
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, April 28, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.