Alana Newhouse
Alana Newhouse is the Editor-in-Chief of Tablet Magazine – the online magazine of Jewish culture, news, and ideas – which she founded in 2009.
Prior to founding Tablet, Newhouse spent five years as Culture Editor of The Forward, where she covered books, films, dance, music, art and ideas. She also started a line of Forward-branded books with W.W. Norton and edited its maiden publication, A Living Lens: Photographs of Jewish Life from the Pages of the Forward.
Newhouse is the author of The 100 Most Jewish Foods, a list of most significant foods culturally and historically to the Jewish people, explored with essays, recipes and stories. Contributors include, Ruth Reichl, Yotam Ottolenghi, Tom Colicchio, Michael Solomonov and several other famed chefs.
A graduate of Barnard College and Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism, Newhouse is a regular contributor to The New York Times, among other outlets, and serves on award juries for both the American Society of Magazine Editors and the Pulitzer Prizes.
