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| Born | 1972 (age 50–51) Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications |
| Occupation | journalist |
| Known for | Boston Globe, U.S. News & World Report |
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Lylah M. Alphonse (born 1972) is an American journalist.
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]
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]
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] ( 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). [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]
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