Spouse(s) Mark Stein Children Two | Name Alina Tugend Role Journalist | |
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Occupation Journalist, poet, public speaker and writer Notable credit(s) "Shortcuts", a semiweekly column in The New York Times Parenting columnist, Worth Magazine" Family Parents:-Rachel (nee Spitzer) Tugend-Thomas J. Tugend Website Alina Tugend Official Website Books Better By Mistake: The Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong Education Yale Law School, University of California, Berkeley, Yale University | ||
BETTER BY MISTAKE: The Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong by Alina Tugend
Alina Tugend is an American journalist, poet, public speaker and writer. She writes "Shortcuts", a weekly column for The New York Times.
Contents
- BETTER BY MISTAKE The Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong by Alina Tugend
- Alina tugend penguin speakers bureau interview
- Early life and education
- Career
- Personal life
- References
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Early life and education
Tugend was born in Los Angeles, California. Her parents are Thomas J. and Rachel (neé Spitzer) Tugend.
She majored in journalism and history at the University of California, Berkeley and later earned a Master of Studies in Law at the Yale Law School.
Career
She has written for the Hudson Dispatch in Union City, New Jersey, the Providence, Rhode Island, bureau of United Press International,Education Week, 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 for The New York Times, which CBS MoneyWatch has called "popular and wildly insightful."
Tugend has also written for other newspapers, such as the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle and numerous magazines including The Atlantic, National Journal, Government Executive, Family Circle, More, the Columbia Journalism Review and the American Journalism Review.
Tugend was a featured writer for The New York Times Practical Guide to Practically Everything – the Essential Companion for Everyday Life. Her writing is also included in The Norton Field Guide to Writing, Second Edition.
In March 2011, Tugend published her first book, Better by Mistake: The Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong (Riverhead). Gretchen Rubin of The Happiness Project praised Better by Mistake as a "great new book" dealing with "how to deal with failure and mistakes in an effective and happier way." Tugend also received the Best in Business for Personal Finance in 2011 from the Society of Business Editors and Writers.
Personal life
Tugend is married to the journalist Mark Stein and they have two children.