Lylah M. Alphonse Explained

Lylah M. Alphonse
Birth Place:Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
Nationality:American
Occupation:journalist
Known For:Boston Globe,
U.S. News & World Report
Father:Gerard A. Alphonse
Mother:Tehmina M. Alphonse
Education:S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications

Lylah M. Alphonse (born 1972) is an American journalist.

Early life

Alphonse was born in Princeton, New Jersey, the oldest child of Gerard A. Alphonse, a Haitian electrical engineer, inventor and research scientist, and Tehmina M. Alphonse,[1] a Parsi restaurateur from India.[2] She attended Princeton Day School, graduating in 1990.[3]

Education

A graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University,[4] Alphonse was inducted to the Newhouse School's Alumni Hall of Fame in 2000.[5]

Career

In 1994, Alphonse began working as an editor at The Boston Globe in Boston, where she eventually became a member of the newspaper's Sunday magazine staff.[6] She also wrote frequently for their Travel,[7] Food,[8] National & Foreign News, and Living/Arts[9] sections. She has also been Consulting Editor for the Fezana Journal,[10] Managing Editor at Work It, Mom!,[11] and Senior Editor and Writer at Yahoo.com,[12] where she covered news, parenting trends, health, women's issues,[13] and politics and interviewed First Lady Michelle Obama,[14] presidential advisor Valerie Jarrett,[15] 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.[16] [17] After a brief tenure as Senior Vice President of Laurel Strategies, a strategic communications firm based in Washington, D.C.,[18] she rejoined The Boston Globe as the editor of their Rhode Island bureau in October 2020.[19] In March 2023, the Boston Globe launched their New Hampshire bureau with Alphonse "editing and shaping Boston Globe New Hampshire as well."[20]

Alphonse formerly wrote the blog The 36-Hour Day blog[21] and Write. Edit. Repeat.,[22] is the author of "Triumph Over Discrimination: The Life Story of Farhang Mehr"[23], and has contributed articles to Our Times (5th edition, Bedford Books, 1998) and Interactions: A Thematic Reader (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1999).[24] She is a frequent guest on WGBH-TV news shows[25] in Boston and offers commentary on "Rhode Island PBS Weekly" in Rhode Island.[26]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Princeton Packet. 24 March 2020. 28 October 2020.
  2. Web site: A Harrowing and Heart-Felt Parsi Memoir. Jul 7, 2021.
  3. Web site: Lylah Alphonse '90 Delivers Rothrock Lecture, 10/11. www.pds.org. Jul 7, 2021.
  4. Web site: Alumni - Newspaper and Online Journalism, Bachelor's - Newhouse School - Syracuse University - Syracuse University. Newhouse School - Syracuse University. 12 October 2018.
  5. Web site: Archived copy . 2016-03-30 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160418075546/http://www.syr.edu/news/archive/story.php?id=992 . 2016-04-18 .
  6. Web site: Magazine 10/14/2018 - The Boston Globe. BostonGlobe.com. 12 October 2018.
  7. Web site: Globe-trotting. Boston.com. 12 October 2018.
  8. Web site: Boston Food and Restaurant News. 12 October 2018. Boston.com. 12 October 2018.
  9. Web site: Books - The Boston Globe Book Reviews and Best Sellers Lists. Boston.com. 12 October 2018.
  10. Web site: FEZANA - Fezana Journal. 12 October 2018.
  11. Web site: Working Moms - Working Mothers Community - Work It, Mom!. blubolt Design. www.blubolt.com. www.workitmom.com. 12 October 2018.
  12. Web site: Yahoo. Yahoo. 12 October 2018.
  13. Web site: Working Closer with Women Online. 1 February 2011. National Archives. whitehouse.gov. 12 October 2018.
  14. Web site: Yahoo - ONLY ON YAHOO! SHINE: Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden Discuss Supporting Military Families in Honor of Veteran's Day . 2016-03-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160412230440/https://investor.yahoo.net/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=623054 . 2016-04-12 . dead .
  15. Web site: Open for Questions: Women in America. https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/lpskctJSf_k. 2021-12-12 . live. The Obama White House. 30 March 2011. 12 October 2018. YouTube.
  16. Web site: Masthead . www.usnews.com . 15 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151225233720/https://www.usnews.com/info/features/masthead . 25 December 2015 . dead.
  17. Web site: Inside U.S. News and World Report with Managing Editor Lylah Alphonse - American Journalism Review. 7 May 2015. 12 October 2018.
  18. Web site: Laurel Strategies Global Team, Lylah M. Alphonse. https://web.archive.org/web/20200629103729/http://www.laurelstrategies.com/lylah-alphonse/. dead. 2020-06-29.
  19. Web site: Lylah Alphonse - editor, Rhode Island - The Boston Globe. BostonGlobe.com. Jul 7, 2021.
  20. Web site: The Boston Globe Announces Investment In New Hampshire Coverage. finance.yahoo.com. 27 March 2023 . March 27, 2023.
  21. Web site: The 36-Hour Day - Work It, Mom!. blubolt Design. www.blubolt.com. www.workitmom.com. 12 October 2018.
  22. Web site: About Lylah M. Alphonse. writeeditrepeat.blogspot.com. 12 October 2018.
  23. Book: Alphonse, Lylah M.. Triumph Over Discrimination: The Life Story of Farhang Mehr. 22 December 2000. Lylah M. Alphonse. 0970993706.
  24. Web site: Lylah M. Alphonse. writeeditrepeat.blogspot.com. 12 October 2018.
  25. Web site: GBH News. News. Jul 7, 2021.
  26. Web site: Rhode Island PBS. News. Oct 4, 2021.

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