Lylah M. Alphonse

Current

• Managing Editor at Work It, Mom!
• Online Columnist at Yahoo.com, Work It Mom!, Larger Families
• Editor, Writer at The Boston Globe

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Past

• Automotive Editor, Business Copy Editor at The (Syracuse) Post-Standard
• General Assignment Reporter, Freelance Writer at The Princeton Packet

Education

• Syracuse University
• Princeton Day School

Recommended

15 people have recommended Lylah M.

Connections

130 connections

Industry

Writing and Editing

Websites

• Write. Edit. Repeat.
• The 36-Hour Day
• The Boston Globe

Lylah M. Alphonse’s Summary

After nearly a decade in the Boston Globe's Living/Arts and National News sections (plus a two-year stint in IT), in 2005 I joined the Boston Globe's Sunday Magazine as a copy editor, focusing on larger features and short, local nuggets. I write a column about gear and gadgets for the Boston Globe's Travel Section twice a month, monthly book reviews for Living/Arts, and the occasional feature for the Globe's Sunday Magazine, Food, Travel, and Sidekick sections.

When I'm not on Globe time, I'm the Managing Editor at Work It, Mom!, (workitmom.com), an online community for female professionals who are also parents, where I manage a growing team of freelance writers as well as write articles about work-life balance, create general content for the site, edit member-generated and freelance articles, write a daily shopping blog called "Affordable Luxuries" and a twice-a-week column about juggling career and motherhood called "The 36-Hour Day." I write about work and money issues for Shine (part of Yahoo.com), about the challenges of raising many kids at LargerFamilies.com, and I guest blog at other places from time to time.

In the wee hours of the night, I'm the Consulting Editor for FEZANA Journal, a publication of the Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America.

For more information and links to my most-recent work, please visit me at http://WriteEditRepeat.blogspot.com

Lylah M. Alphonse’s Specialties:

Feature articles, profiles, travel writing, parenting, reporting, work life balance, finance, career, product reviews, book reviews, copy editing, freelance editing, consulting.

Lylah M. Alphonse’s Experience

• Managing Editor

  Work It, Mom!

  (Internet industry)

  December 2007 — Present (1 year 1 month)

  I write a weekly column at Work It, Mom! called "The 36-Hour Day," about juggling career and parenthood. I'm also the company's Managing Editor, developing content for the site (among other things).
  
  http://www.workitmom.com/bloggers/36hourday/

• Online Columnist

  Yahoo.com, Work It Mom!, Larger Families

  (Internet industry)

  November 2007 — Present (1 year 2 months)

  I write about career and money issues for Shine, a new portal on Yahoo (http://shine.yahoo.com), about juggling career and parenthood at "The 36-Hour Day" (http://www.workitmom.com/bloggers/36hourday), and about the challenges of raising a big bunch of kids at Larger Families(http://www.largerfamilies.com).

• Editor, Writer

  The Boston Globe

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; NYT; Newspapers industry)

  1994 — Present (14 years)

  * Copy Editor, Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, 2005-present.
  
  * Team Member, Information Technology/CCI Project, 2003-2005.
  
  * Assistant Editor, National News, 1999-2003.
  
  * Production Editor, Living/Arts, 1994-1999.
  
  * Book Review writer, Living/Arts, 2004-present.
  
  * Columnist, Travel and Living/Arts sections, 1998-present.
  
  * Writer, other sections, 1996-present.
  
  For detailed information, please go to http://writeeditrepeat.blogspot.com/search/label/Resume

• Automotive Editor, Business Copy Editor

  The (Syracuse) Post-Standard

  (Newspapers industry)

  1992 — 1994 (2 years)

• General Assignment Reporter, Freelance Writer

  The Princeton Packet

  (Newspapers industry)

  1990 — 1992 (2 years)

Lylah M. Alphonse’s Education

• Syracuse University

  BS, Newspaper Journalism, minors in Literature and Psychology, 1990 — 1994

• Princeton Day School

  1986 — 1990

Additional Information

Lylah M. Alphonse’s Websites:

• Write. Edit. Repeat.
• The 36-Hour Day
• The Boston Globe

Lylah M. Alphonse’s Groups:

ZABGA, AAJA, SAJA, ZWIN

•    Syracuse University Alumni Network

Lylah M. Alphonse’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
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• job inquiries
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