Alina Tugend Biography
Alina Tugend is a journalist, public speaker, and writer from the United States. She has written for the Hudson Dispatch in Union City, New Jersey, the United Press International bureau in Providence, Rhode Island, Education Week, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, where she began the paper’s environmental reporting, and the Orange County Register.
Alina Tugend Age
Alina was born in 1959 in Los Angeles, California, United States of America. She is 64 years old as of 2023.
Alina Tugend Education
She studied journalism and history at the University of California, Berkeley, and then went on to receive a Master of Studies in Law from Yale Law School.
Alina Tugend Husband
Tugend is happily married to her husband the journalist Mark Stein and they have two children.
Alina Tugend Career
She has written for the Hudson Dispatch in Union City, New Jersey, the United Press International bureau in Providence, Rhode Island, Education Week, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, where she began the paper’s environmental reporting, and the Orange County Register. Tugend was the Chronicle of Higher Education’s London correspondent for six years, beginning in 1994, before returning to the United States in 2000. She wrote The New York Times’ award-winning “Shortcuts” column from 2005 to 2015. Tugend has also written for the Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, and numerous magazines, including The Atlantic, National Journal, Government Executive, Family Circle, More, Columbia Journalism Review, and American Journalism Review.
The New York Times Practical Guide to Practically Everything: The Essential Companion for Everyday Life included Tugend as a featured writer. in “Mistakes I Made at Work: 25 Influential Women Reflect on What They Got Out of Getting It Wrong.” The Norton Field Guide to Writing, Second Edition, uses her work as an example of the best essay writing. Better by Mistake: The Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong, Tugend’s debut book, was released by Riverhead. The Happiness Project’s Gretchen Rubin called Better by Mistake a “great new book” that teaches “how to deal with failure and mistakes in an effective and happier way.”Additionally, Tugend was awarded the 2011 Society of Business Editors and Writers’ Best in Business for Personal Finance award.
Alina Tugend Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of 500 thousand dollars.