Alana Semuels

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

She worked as a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times in New York, and covered the economy for that newspaper out of Los Angeles.^[4] She previously covered Great Britain for the Boston Globe and health and technology topics for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.^[5]

Semuels was a finalist for a Gerald Loeb award 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.^[7] She also won a feature writing award from the Society of Business Editors and Writers in 2011.^[8]

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.^[9]

Selected works

• Animosity climbs as SUVs make inroads in Britain
• As employers push efficiency, the daily grind wears down workers
• 'So random': in Boston, bombs blow, a family shatters
• Turning an iconic house into a home is easy as pie
• Cicadas liven up Staten Island with song and sex
• The Hands That Grab in Tangier
• America Out of Work
• http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2008/01/alana-semuels.html

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