Journalism Portfolio


Alexander Gelfand
As a freelance journalist, I've covered everything from education and technology to food and music. I'm as comfortable online as in print. And I can get not only the story, but also the sound and images to support it.

My work has appeared in the print and online wings of numerous publications, from The New York Times and The Chicago Tribune to The Economist, The Village Voice, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Forward, Tablet Magazine, Discover Magazine, Wired, Seed, and MIT's Technology Review.

And I've put my academic background (I have a PhD and served time as a college professor) to good use writing for alumni magazines, research publications, and other outlets at a number of colleges and universities, including Columbia, Penn, Juilliard, Denison, Penn State, the University of Florida, WPI, and FIT.

Please click on the links below to read samples of my writing.