Alina Tugend is an American journalist, public speaker and writer.
She has written for the Hudson Dispatch in Union City, New Jersey, the Providence, Rhode Island, bureau of United Press International,Education Week,[2][3] 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.
[12] and "Mistakes I Made at Work: 25 Influential Women Reflect on What They Got Out of Getting It Wrong."
[13] In March 2011, Tugend published her first book, Better by Mistake: The Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong (Riverhead).