Alana Newhouse | |
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| Born | 1976 (age 47–48) Lawrence, Nassau County, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Barnard College Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism |
Alana Newhouse (born 1976) is an American writer and editor. She is the founder of Tablet magazine.
Newhouse was born in 1976 and grew up in Lawrence, New York. Her father came from the Ashkenazic tradition, and her mother was Sephardic. [1] [2] She is a graduate of the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway, a 1997 graduate of Barnard College, [3] and a 2002 graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
After college, Newhouse worked for political consultant David Garth. [4] Her journalism career began at The Forward , where she was a religion reporter before being named arts and culture editor in 2003. [5] In 2008 she became editor of Nextbook . [5] [6] She established Tablet Magazine for Nextbook in 2009. [7] [8]
Newhouse is a contributor to other media outlets, most notably The New York Times . In April 2010, she reported on a new discovery related to the photography of Roman Vishniac [9] for The New York Times Magazine and, in July 2010, penned a controversial essay on Jewish conversion in Israel for the op-ed page titled "The Diaspora Need Not Apply". [10] [11]
Newhouse lives in New York City with her husband, David Samuels.
Lawrence is a village in Nassau County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the village population was 6,483.
Donald Edward Newhouse is an American billionaire heir and business magnate. He owns Advance Publications, founded by his father, Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr., in 1922, whose properties include Condé Nast, dozens of newspapers across the US, cable company Bright House Networks and a controlling stake in Discovery Communications. According to Bloomberg Billionaires Index, he has an estimated net worth of $19.4 billion. He resides in New York City.
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Nextbook is a nonprofit Jewish organization founded in 2003 by Elaine Bernstein's Keren Keshet Foundation to promote Jewish literacy and support Jewish literature, culture and ideas. The organization sponsors public lectures, commissions books on Jewish topics through Schocken Books, and publishes an online magazine, Tablet.
Tablet is a conservative online magazine focused on Jewish news and culture. The magazine was founded in 2009 and is supported by the Nextbook foundation. Its editor-in-chief is Alana Newhouse.
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