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.[citation needed]
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]
- ^ About the Globe Magazine - The Boston Globe
- ^ Globe-trotting - The Boston Globe
- ^ Food - Boston.com
- ^ Books - The Boston Globe Book Reviews and Best Sellers Lists - Boston.com
- ^ FEZANA - Fezana Journal
- ^ Working Mothers | Working Moms Community - Work It, Mom!
- ^ [3]
- ^ [4]
- ^ [5]
- ^ [6]
- ^ [7]
- ^ [8]
- ^ Balancing Work and Family Blog - The 36-Hour Day - Work It, Mom!
- ^ http://writeeditrepeat.blogspot.com/p/about-lylah.html
- ^ http://www.amazon.com/Triumph-Over-Discrimination-Story-Farhang/dp/0970993706
- ^ Write. Edit. Repeat
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- 1972 births
- Living people
- American biographers
- American writers of Haitian descent
- American women journalists of Indian descent
- American people of Parsi descent
- People from Princeton, New Jersey
- S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications alumni
- Writers of blogs about home and family
- Women biographers
- American women bloggers
- Indian women bloggers