Lylah M. Alphonse

Lylah M. Alphonse (born 1972 in Princeton, New Jersey) is an American journalist.

Her mother is a Parsi from India and her father is from Haiti. The eldest of three children, Alphonse attended Princeton Day School.

A graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, she was inducted to the Newhouse School's Alumni Hall of Fame in 2000.

In 1994, she began working as an editor at The Boston Globe newspaper in Boston, where she eventually became a member of the newspaper's Sunday magazine 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 First Lady Michelle Obama, 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.

Ms. 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).

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