Lylah Alphonse

Managing editor for government rankings/news—U.S. News & World Report

Sessions:

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• Avoiding #PRFail: PR tips from a journalist
  Main Conference

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• Pitch tank: Pitch our panel of journalists and see if your story sinks or swims
  Main Conference

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2000. Lylah M. Alphonse is the managing editor for government rankings and news at U.S. News & World Report, where she oversees coverage of national issues from politics and policy to higher education and health care. She appears regularly on WGBH-TV’s “Greater Boston” and “Beat the Press.” She previously worked as a senior editor and writer at Yahoo.com, where she wrote about politics, health, career, and parenting trends and interviewed political notables including first lady Michelle Obama, Dr. Jill Biden, Valerie Jarrett, and others on-camera and off. Before joining Yahoo, she spent 16 years as an editor and writer at The Boston Globe, working in the National News, Living/Arts and Sunday Magazine departments and writing the parenting column on Boston.com. She earned a Bachelors of Science in Journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, and was inducted into their alumni hall of fame in 2000.