In 1994, Alphonse began working as an editor at
The Boston Globe in
Boston, where she eventually became a member of the newspaper's
Sunday magazine staff.[6] She also wrote frequently for their Travel,[7] Food,[8] National & Foreign News, and Living/Arts[9] sections. She has also been Consulting Editor for the Fezana Journal,[10] Managing Editor at Work It, Mom!,[11] and Senior Editor and Writer at Yahoo.com,[12] where she covered news, parenting trends, health, women's issues,[13] and politics and interviewed
First Lady Michelle Obama,[14] presidential advisor Valerie Jarrett,[15] and others.
She became the managing editor for special reports at U.S. News & World Report in June 2013, and was promoted to managing editor for news a year later.[16][17] After a brief tenure as Senior Vice President of Laurel Strategies, a strategic communications firm based in Washington, D.C.,[18] she rejoined The Boston Globe as the editor of their Rhode Island bureau in October 2020.[19] In March 2023, the Boston Globe launched their New Hampshire bureau with Alphonse "editing and shaping Boston Globe New Hampshire as well."[20]
Alphonse formerly wrote the blog The 36-Hour Day blog[21] and Write. Edit. Repeat.,[22] is the author of "Triumph Over Discrimination: The Life Story of Farhang Mehr"[23] (
ISBN0-9709937-0-6), and has contributed articles to Our Times (5th edition, Bedford Books, 1998) and Interactions: A Thematic Reader (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1999).[24] She is a frequent guest on WGBH-TV news shows[25] in Boston and offers commentary on "Rhode Island PBS Weekly" in Rhode Island.[26]