Lorraine Ali (Arabic: لورين علي) is an American journalist and columnist. She is news and culture critic of the Los Angeles Times,[1] where she was previously a senior writer, television critic, and music editor. Her work has appeared in publications such as Rolling Stone, the New York Times, GQ, and Newsweek, where she was a senior writer and music critic from 2000 to 2009.[2][3] She is a member of the Peabody Awards board of jurors.[4]
Lorraine Ali | |
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| Born | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Notable awards | Da Capo Best Music Writing National Arab Journalists Excellence in Journalism Award |
| Website | |
| lorraineali | |
Background
editAli was born in Los Angeles California to an Iraqi father and an American mother of French Canadian ancestry.[5]
Career
editAli began her career in the 1990s writing about local Los Angeles music artists for the LA Weekly before becoming a regular writer with the Los Angeles Times under the editorship of Robert Hilburn. Ali's work was included in Da Capo's "Best Music Writing 2001."[6] Ali was a senior critic for Rolling Stone and a music columnist for Mademoiselle. She has written for Esquire, SPIN, The Village Voice, Adweek, Entertainment Weekly, Harper's Bazaar and Option. She wrote a car column for U.H.F in the 1990s before the alternative style magazine folded. She has appeared on Oprah, Charlie Rose, CNN, BBC, among other media outlets, where she has discussed media, entertainment, culture, her relatives in Iraq and American-Muslim issues.[5]
Since the Multi-National Force (sometimes called The Coalition) invasion of Iraq in 2003, Ali has published dozens of stories about her extended Iraqi family, the ensuing refugee crisis and President Donald Trump's 2017 travel ban. She has also written about the portrayal of Muslims in American media, film and television.[7][8]
Awards
editAli was awarded an East West Center fellowship in 2016, and a Hedgebrook fellowship in 2011.[2]
In 2022, she won first place, Criticism of TV, at the LA Press Club's Southern California Journalism Awards.[9] She also won Best Online Feature from the New York Association of Black Journalists in 2007,[10] and an Excellence in Journalism Award in 2002 from the National Arab Journalists Association.[11] In 1996, she won Best National Feature Story honors at the Music Journalism Awards.[12]
References
edit- ^ "Lorraine Ali". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ a b Edgar, Dierdre (February 8, 2017). "Lorraine Ali Named TV Critic for LA Times". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 12, 2017.
- ^ David Chambers (April 2006). "Calling Helen Thomas". Saudi Aramco World. Saudi Aramco. Retrieved December 12, 2022.
- ^ "Who We Are". Grady College and University of Georgia. Retrieved November 22, 2019.
- ^ a b Sanchez, Rick (March 17, 2007). "This Week at War". CNN. Retrieved March 12, 2017.
- ^ Vanderburg, Marcus (October 13, 2011). "Lorraine Ali Named LA Times Pop Music Editor". Adweek. Retrieved March 12, 2017.
- ^ Shirazi, Faegheh (2010). Muslim Women in War and Crisis: Representation and Reality. University of Texas. p. 269. ISBN 978-0-292-72884-4. Retrieved March 13, 2017.
- ^ "Lorraine Ali: Aggregated Content". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 13, 2017.
- ^ "Los Angeles Times Earns L.A. Press Club's Southern California Journalism Awards for Range of Work". Los Angeles Times. June 29, 2022. Retrieved March 27, 2024.
- ^ "Christoph Bieber & Stephen Engel in Conversation. Moderated by Lorraine Ali". www.vatmh.org.
- ^ "Lorraine Ali". Arab America.
- ^ "Lorraine Ali Tops 1997 Music Journalism Award Winners". Writers Write.