Alana Semuels is a journalist for the Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times

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in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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, California

California

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. Semuels, born in Boston, Massachusetts, attended Harvard University

Harvard University

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 where she earned Bachelor of Arts in American History and Literature.

She covers the California economy for the Los Angeles Times. She previously covered Great Britain for the Boston Globe and health and technology topics for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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Semuels was named "Journalist of the Year" at the 2009 Los Angeles Press Club Awards.

Selected works

• The Hands That Grab in Tangier
• RushmoreDrive: We need a black Google
• America Out of Work
• http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/alana_semuels/
• http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jan/02/business/fi-thrift2
• http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2008/01/alana-semuels.html