Alana Semuels

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Alana Semuels
Born
Belmont, Massachusetts, U.S.
Alma mater Harvard University, London School of Economics
OccupationJournalist
Children1 [1]
Website alanasemuels.com

Alana Semuels is an American journalist.

Early life and education

Semuels, born in Belmont, Massachusetts, attended Harvard University, where she earned Bachelor of Arts in American history and literature. [2] She also received a Rotary Scholarship to study at the London School of Economics, where she received a master's degree. [3]

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Career

While in London, Semuels was a correspondent for The Boston Globe newspaper. [4] She formerly worked as a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times [5] in New York, and covered the economy for that newspaper out of Los Angeles. [6]

She also previously covered Great Britain for The Boston Globe as well as health and technology topics for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . [7] She was a staff writer for The Atlantic [5] in San Francisco, California. [1] As of 2021, she is senior economics Correspondent at Time. [8]

Work

Semuels was a Gerald Loeb Award finalist in 2014 for her series about the diminishing power of employees at the workplace. [6] 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]

Personal life

Semuels has a son (born October 23, 2020). [1]

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  2. ↑ http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2000/05.18/weissman.html Harvard Gazette Archives - Weissman Program names 2000 interns
  3. ↑ "Scholars who have not yet confirmed that they will attend the link". Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2013-07-08. District 1220 Rotary International
  4. ↑ "Alana Semuels". January 2008.
  5. 1 2 Semuels, Alana. "Alana Semuels". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2018-01-06.
  6. 1 2 "Alana Semuels". Los Angeles Times .
  7. ↑ Los Angeles Times Business Reporter - Alana Semuels
  8. ↑ "Home / Alana Semuels" . Retrieved 2021-01-10.
  9. ↑ http://lapressclub.org/uncategorized/a-gala-night-to-remember/ Archived 2010-09-18 at the Wayback Machine Los Angeles Press Club
  10. ↑ "Best in Business 2011 contest-judges' comments « SABEW". Archived from the original on 2013-07-31. Retrieved 2013-07-08.
  11. ↑ "2017 Best in Business Honorees – SABEW".
  12. ↑ "America's Great Divergence". The Atlantic . 30 January 2017.
  13. ↑ "Internet Sources Cited in Opinions for the 2016 Term". www.supremecourt.gov. Retrieved 2018-01-06.
  14. ↑ "JESUS C. HERNANDEZ, ET AL., PETITIONERS v. JESUS MESA, JR., ET AL" (PDF). Supreme Court. January 6, 2018. pp. 5–6.
  15. ↑ "Best of Lonely Planet Travel Writing". Archived from the original on 2013-07-19. Retrieved 2013-07-08.
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