Lylah M. Alphonse (born 1972) is an American journalist.

Early life

Alphonse was born in

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, the oldest child of

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, a

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an electrical engineer, inventor and research scientist, and Tehmina M. Alphonse, a

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restaurateur from India. She attended

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, graduating in 1990.

Education

A graduate of the

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, Alphonse was inducted to the Newhouse School's Alumni Hall of Fame in 2000.

Career

In 1994, Alphonse began working as an editor at

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, where she eventually became a member of the newspaper's

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staff. She also wrote frequently for their Travel, Food, National & Foreign News, and Living/Arts sections. She has also been Consulting Editor for the ''Fezana Journal'', Managing Editor at ''Work It, Mom!,'' and Senior Editor and Writer at Yahoo.com, where she covered news, parenting trends, health, women's issues, and politics and interviewed

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, presidential advisor Valerie Jarrett, 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. After a brief tenure as Senior Vice President of Laurel Strategies, a strategic communications firm based in Washington, D.C., she rejoined The Boston Globe as the editor of their Rhode Island bureau in October 2020. Alphonse formerly wrote the blog ''The 36-Hour Day blog'' and ''Write. Edit. Repeat.'', is the author of "Triumph Over Discrimination: The Life Story of Farhang Mehr" (), and has contributed articles to ''Our Times'' (5th edition, Bedford Books, 1998) and ''Interactions: A Thematic Reader'' (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1999). She is a frequent guest on WGBH-TV news shows in Boston and offers commentary on "Rhode Island PBS Weekly" in Rhode Island.

References

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