Alana Newhouse

Alana Newhouse is a writer and editor.

Newhouse grew up in Lawrence, New York.[1]

She is a graduate of the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway, a 1997 graduate of Barnard College,[2] and a 2002 graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

After college, Newhouse worked for political consultant David Garth.[3] Her journalism career began at The Forward, where she was a religion reporter before being named Arts and Culture editor in 2003.[4] In 2008 she became editor of Nextbook.[4][5] She established Tablet Magazine for Nextbook in 2009.[6][7]

Newhouse is a contributor to other media outlets, most notably The New York Times. In April 2010, she reported on a new discovery related to the photography of Roman Vishniac[8] for The New York Times Magazine and, in July 2010, penned a controversial essay on Jewish conversion for the op-ed page titled "The Diaspora Need Not Apply".[9]

Books

References

  1. ^ Gal Beckerman (March 2, 2006). "The personal allure of religion". The Jerusalem Post. http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1139395525627&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull. Retrieved 31 March 2011. 
  2. ^ Alana Newhouse (June 8, 2006). "Modern Orthodoxy's Marriage Crisis". The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. http://www.jewishjournal.com/opinion/article/modern_orthodoxys_marriage_crisis_20060609/. Retrieved 31 March 2011. 
  3. ^ Sam Roberts (July 25, 1989). "A Strategist Sees if His Hand Is Still Hot". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/25/nyregion/a-strategist-sees-if-his-hand-is-still-hot.html. Retrieved 31 March 2011. 
  4. ^ a b Nell Gluckman (July 31, 2008). "Alana Newhouse To Lead Nextbook.org". The New York Sun. http://www.nysun.com/arts/alana-newhouse-to-lead-nextbookorg/82914/. Retrieved 31 March 2011. 
  5. ^ Andrew Silow-Carroll (August 27, 2008). "I could write a book...". The Jerusalem Post. http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1219572143104&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull. Retrieved 31 March 2011. 
  6. ^ David Carr (June 9, 2009). "A New Online Magazine About Jewish News and Culture,". The New York Times. http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/09/a-new-online-magazine-about-jewish-news-and-culture/. Retrieved 31 March 2011. 
  7. ^ B. Solomont (June 10, 2005). "Tablet Magazine' launches in attempt to set Jewish life to multimedia". The Jerusalem Post. http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1244371056697&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull. Retrieved 31 March 2011. 
  8. ^ Alana Newhouse (April 1, 2010). "A Closer Reading of Roman Vishniac". The New York Times Magazine. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/magazine/04shtetl-t.html. Retrieved 31 March 2011. 
  9. ^ Alana Newhouse (July 15, 2010). "The Diaspora Need Not Apply". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/16/opinion/16newhouse.html. Retrieved 31 March 2011.