Alana New­house is the edi­tor in chief of Tablet, a dai­ly online mag­a­zine of Jew­ish news ideas and cul­ture which she found­ed in 2009. A grad­u­ate of Barnard Col­lege and Columbia’s Grad­u­ate School of Jour­nal­ism, New­house has con­tributed to the New York Times, the Wash­ing­ton Post, the Boston Globe, and Slate. She lives in New York City.