Alana Semuels

Alana Semuels is an American journalist working as a staff writer for The Atlantic[1] in San Francisco, California.[2] Semuels, born in Belmont, 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]

Alana Semuels
Born
Belmont, Massachusetts, U.S.
Alma materHarvard University, London School of Economics
OccupationJournalist
Websitealanasemuels.com

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 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.[8] She also won a feature writing award from the Society of Business Editors and Writers in 2011.[9] She also received an award from the Society of Business Editors and Writers in 2017 for a story, "The Problem With Rolling Back Regulations."[10] Semuels traveled to Japan and Sweden in the summer of 2017 as an Abe Fellow for Journalists, sponsored by the Social Science Research Council.[11]

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.[12][13]

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.[14]

References
  1. Semuels, Alana. "Alana Semuels". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2018-01-06.
  2. https://twitter.com/AlanaSemuels
  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.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) District 1220 Rotary International
  5. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2008/01/alana-semuels.html
  6. http://www.latimes.com/la-bio-alana-semuels-staff.html
  7. Los Angeles Times Business Reporter - Alana Semuels
  8. http://lapressclub.org/uncategorized/a-gala-night-to-remember/ Archived 2010-09-18 at the Wayback Machine Los Angeles Press Club
  9. 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/
  10. https://sabew.org/2017-best-in-business-honorees/
  11. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/01/americas-great-divergence/514784/
  12. "Internet Sources Cited in Opinions for the 2016 Term". www.supremecourt.gov. Retrieved 2018-01-06.
  13. "JESUS C. HERNANDEZ, ET AL., PETITIONERS v. JESUS MESA, JR., ET AL" (PDF). Supreme Court. January 6, 2018. pp. 5–6.
  14. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-07-19. Retrieved 2013-07-08.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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