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, she was recently inducted to the Newhouse School's Alumni Hall of Fame.
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.[1] She also wrote frequently for their Travel,[2] Food,[3] National & Foreign News, and Living/Arts[4] sections. She has also been Consulting Editor for the Fezana Journal[5] and Managing Editor at Work It, Mom!.[6]
More recently, she held the position of Senior Editor and Writer for the Y! Shine microsite of Yahoo.com,[7] writing extensively on a variety of topics, particularly women's issues. 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.
Ms. Alphonse also has blogs titled The 36-Hour Day blog[8] and Write. Edit. Repeat.,[9] is the author of "Triumph Over Discrimination: The Life Story of Farhang Mehr"[10] (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).[11]
References
- ↑ 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!
- ↑ Shine: Fashion and Beauty, Healthy Living, Parenting, Sex and Love, Career and Money, Food, and more - Shine on Yahoo!
- ↑ 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
- Articles with unsourced statements from January 2010
- 1972 births
- Living people
- American biographers
- American writers of Haitian descent
- American people of Indian descent
- American people of Iranian descent
- People from Princeton, New Jersey
- S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications alumni
- Writers of blogs about home and family
- American women writers
- American journalists of Asian descent
- American women journalists
- Women biographers
- Women bloggers
