Alina Tugend

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Alina Tugend
Born Los Angeles, California, United States
Education -Bachelor of Arts in journalism and history, University of California, Berkeley
-Master of Studies in Law, Yale Law School (Yale University)
Occupation Journalist, poet, public speaker and writer[1]
Notable credit(s) "Shortcuts", a semiweekly column in The New York Times Parenting columnist, Worth Magazine"
Spouse(s) Mark Stein
Children Two
Family Parents:
-Rachel (neé Spitzer) Tugend
-Thomas J. Tugend
Website Alina Tugend Official Website

Alina Tugend is an American journalist, poet, public speaker and writer.[1] She writes "Shortcuts", a weekly column for The New York Times.

Career

She has written for the Hudson Dispatch in Union City, New Jersey, the Providence, Rhode Island, bureau of United Press International,Education Week,[2][3] the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, where she started the paper's environment reporting, and The Orange County Register. For six years, starting in 1994, Tugend was the London, England, correspondent for the Chronicle of Higher Education before returning to U.S. in 2000. In 2005 she started writing the "Shortcuts" column.[4] for The New York Times.

Tugend has also written for other newspapers, such as the Los Angeles Times,[5] The Boston Globe,[6] the San Francisco Chronicle and numerous magazines including The Atlantic,[7] National Journal,[8] Government Executive,[9] Family Circle,[10] More, the Columbia Journalism Review and the American Journalism Review.[11]

Tugend was a featured writer for The New York Times Practical Guide to Practically Everything – the Essential Companion for Everyday Life.[12] Her writing is also included in The Norton Field Guide to Writing, Second Edition[13]

In March 2011, Tugend published her first book, Better by Mistake: The Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong (Riverhead).[14] She also received the Best in Business for Personal Finance in 2011 from the Society of Business Editors and Writers.[15]

Personal life

Tugend is married to the journalist Mark Stein and they have two children. Tugend majored in journalism and history at the University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, California and later earned a Master of Studies in Law at the Yale Law School.

Bibliography

  • Bernstein, Amy D. (Co-Editor); Bernstein, Peter W. (Co-Editor) (2006). The New York Times Practical Guide to Practically Everything – the Essential Companion for Everyday Life. St. Martin's Press (New York City). ISBN 978-0-312-35388-9. (Tugend was featured writer.)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Podcast (requires Adobe Flash) of interview (August 20, 2007). "Take My Books, Please!". The Brian Lehrer Show (on WNYC radio). Accessed December 21, 2009.
  2. ↑ Betwixt and Between: Patterns of Masculine and Feminine Initiation, 1987, Open Court Publishing, Peru, Ill., pp. vii and 45
  3. ↑ Education Week, August 22, 1984
  4. ↑ Shortcuts columns in The New York Times
  5. ↑ Los Angeles Times article
  6. ↑ Boston Globe, September 7, 2004
  7. ↑ http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/12/the-old-age-survival-guide-how-to-live-a-longer-happier-life/250154/
  8. ↑ National Journal article
  9. ↑ Government Executive article
  10. ↑ http://www.familycircle.com/teen/school/issues/fundraising/?page=1
  11. ↑ American Journalism Review articles
  12. ↑ The New York Times Practical Guide to Practically Everything — the Essential Companion for Everyday Life (St. Martins Press, 2006)
  13. ↑ http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/write/fieldguide/index.asp
  14. ↑ Riverhead Books blog
  15. ↑ <http://sabew.org/?s=Frontier+Marketsref>

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