| Alana Semuels | |
| Birth Place: | Belmont, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Alma Mater: | Harvard University, London School of Economics |
| Children: | 1 |
| Occupation: | Journalist |
Alana Semuels is an American journalist.
Semuels, born in Belmont, Massachusetts, attended Harvard University, where she earned Bachelor of Arts in American history and literature.[1] She also received a Rotary Scholarship to study at the London School of Economics, where she received a master's degree.[2]
While in London, Semuels was a correspondent for The Boston Globe newspaper.[3] She formerly worked as a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times in New York, and covered the economy for that newspaper out of Los Angeles.[4]
She also previously covered Great Britain for The Boston Globe as well as health and technology topics for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.[5] She was a staff writer for The Atlantic[6] in San Francisco, California.[7] As of 2021, she is senior economics Correspondent at Time.[8]
Semuels was a Gerald Loeb Award finalist in 2014 for her series about the diminishing power of employees at the workplace.[4] She was named "Journalist of the Year" at the 2009 Los Angeles Press Club Awards.[9] She also won a feature writing award from the Society of Business Editors and Writers in 2011.[10] She also received an award from the Society of Business Editors and Writers in 2017 for a story, "The Problem With Rolling Back Regulations."[11] Semuels traveled to Japan and Sweden in the summer of 2017 as an Abe Fellow for Journalists, sponsored by the Social Science Research Council.[12]
Semuels's article "Crossing the Mexican-American Border, Every Day" was cited in Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer's dissent for the case Hernandez v. Mesa.[13] [14] Travel stories by Semuels from Africa and South America have appeared in three anthologies by Lonely Planet: By the Seat of My Pants, Tales from Nowhere, and Best of Lonely Planet Travel Writing.[15]
Semuels has a son (born October 23, 2020).