I am an award-winning journalist who writes for numerous national publications on education and other topics, including The New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education and Kiplinger Retirement Report. From 2005-2015 I wrote the biweekly “Shortcuts” column for The New York Times business section.

I’m  also the author of the book “Better by Mistake: The Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong,” and one of 25 women featured in the book “Mistakes I made at Work: 25 Influential Women Reflect on What They Got Out of Getting it Wrong.”  You can see more of her work at www.alinatugend.com

 

info Subjects

General

Business & Finance
Education
Lifestyle
Parenting

notepad Skills

  • Articles
  • Books
  • Case studies
  • Feature writing
  • Editing
  • E-books
  • Ghostwriting
  • Media relations
  • Web copy
  • Essays

notepad Writing Credits

The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Kiplinger Retirement Report, The 74 Million, The Hechinger Report, The Washington Monthly, The Atlantic

notepad Book Credits

star Awards, Honors, Appointments

Higher Education Media Fellow from the Institute for Citizens & Scholars, Mar 2021. Fellowship awarded to 11 journalists to learn and write about career and technical education

Senior Fellow, FutureEd, 2018-present

 

Reporting Grant, The Investigative Fund, 2016. Grant to write about the impact of the College’s Board’s expansion of Advance Placement courses and tests into low-income schools. The piece appeared in The New York Times magazine.

Fellowship, The  National Press Foundation, 2015. Fellowship to learn about issues American retirees are going to face over the next decades.

 
Finalist “Better by Mistake: The Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong,” 2011. ​Issued by Books for A Better Life 

Best in Business, Personal Finance, New York Times Shortcuts column, 2011, Issued by Society of Business Editors and Writers ·

Yale Law School Journalism Fellowship, Jan. 1987, Fellowship for journalists to study law for a year at Yale Law School, resulting in a Masters of Studies of Law.

Selected Work

As author, unless indicated otherwise.

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Is Following Your Work Passion Overrated?

Experts say the pandemic and resulting changes in the working world may be encouraging people to rethink how essential passion for your job really is.

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Who Benefits from the Expansion of AP Classes?

Millions of federal and state dollars are spent each year on increasing the number of Advanced Placement classes in low-income majority black and Latino high schools. Is this a benefit to the students or a payday for the testing company?

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Return to Your Home Country to Retire: Repatriation Retirement

Increasingly people who immigrated to the US decades ago are thinking of returning home to retire. What can they expect?

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My father fled Nazi Germany. His homeland remembers him with a marker inscribed ‘Here lived’

There is an importance to remembering. That is why my father, at 94, returned to Berlin in July after he was forced to flee his homeland 80 years ago. He and his family were about to become part of a unique artistic commemoration.

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