Alana Semuels

Alana Semuels
Born Belmont, Massachusetts, US
Alma mater Harvard University, London School of Economics
Occupation Journalist
Website alanasemuels.com

Alana Semuels is a journalist working as a staff writer for The Atlantic[1] in San Francisco, California. [2]. Semuels, born in Boston, Massachusetts, attended Harvard University where she earned Bachelor of Arts in American History and Literature.[3] She also received a Rotary Scholarship to study at the London School of Economics, where she received a master's degree.[4] While in London, Semuels was a correspondent for the Boston Globe newspaper.[5]

She formerly worked as a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times[1] 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]

Semuels was a finalist for a Gerald Loeb award in 2017 for a series of stories about upward mobility in the United States. [8] She was also a Loeb 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 Hernández 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]

Selected works

References

  1. 1 2 Semuels, Alana. "Alana Semuels". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2018-01-06.
  2. ↑ https://twitter.com/AlanaSemuels?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
  3. ↑ http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2000/05.18/weissman.html Harvard Gazette Archives - Weissman Program names 2000 interns
  4. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2013-07-08. District 1220 Rotary International
  5. ↑ http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2008/01/alana-semuels.html
  6. 1 2 http://www.latimes.com/la-bio-alana-semuels-staff.html
  7. ↑ Los Angeles Times Business Reporter - Alana Semuels
  8. ↑ https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/2017-gerald-loeb-award-finalists-career-achievement-honorees-and-date-of-awards-banquet-in-new-york-city-announced-by-ucla-anderson-300460104.html/
  9. ↑ http://lapressclub.org/uncategorized/a-gala-night-to-remember/ Archived 2010-09-18 at the Wayback Machine. Los Angeles Press Club
  10. ↑ http://sabew.org/best-in-business/past-best-in-business-contests/complete-list-of-winners-in-sabew%E2%80%99s-17th-annual-best-in-business-awards/best-in-business-2011-contest-judges-comments/
  11. ↑ https://sabew.org/2017-best-in-business-honorees/
  12. ↑ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/01/americas-great-divergence/514784/
  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. ↑ http://shop.lonelyplanet.com/world/best-of-lonely-planet-travel-writing-1/



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