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Alana Semuels

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Alana Semuels
Born
Alma materHarvard University, London School of Economics
OccupationJournalist
Children1[1]
Websitealanasemuels.com

Alana Semuels is an American journalist.

Early life and education

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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]

Career

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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

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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

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

References

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  1. ^ a b c Twitter Alana Semuels
  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. ^ a b Semuels, Alana. "Alana Semuels". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2018-01-06.
  6. ^ a b "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.