Lylah M. Alphonse
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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] In 2025, she was awarded the Princeton Day School Alumni Achievement Award,[6] which honors alumni who have achieved excellence in their chosen field and who have made a commitment to helping others. [7]
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.[8] She also wrote frequently for their Travel,[9] Food,[10] National & Foreign News, and Living/Arts[11] sections. She has also been Consulting Editor for the Fezana Journal,[12] Managing Editor at Work It, Mom!,[13] and Senior Editor and Writer at Yahoo.com,[14] where she covered news, parenting trends, health, women's issues,[15] and politics and interviewed First Lady Michelle Obama,[16] presidential advisor Valerie Jarrett,[17] 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.[18][19] After a brief tenure as Senior Vice President of Laurel Strategies, a strategic communications firm based in Washington, D.C.,[20] she rejoined The Boston Globe as the editor of their Rhode Island bureau in October 2020.[21] In March 2023, The Boston Globe launched their New Hampshire bureau with Alphonse "editing and shaping Boston Globe New Hampshire as well."[22]
Alphonse formerly wrote the blog The 36-Hour Day blog[23] and Write. Edit. Repeat.,[24] is the author of Triumph Over Discrimination: The Life Story of Farhang Mehr[25] (Template:ISBN), and has contributed articles to Our Times (5th edition, Bedford Books, 1998) and Interactions: A Thematic Reader (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1999).[26] She is a frequent guest on WGBH-TV news shows[27] in Boston and offers commentary on Rhode Island PBS Weekly in Rhode Island.[28]
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