Tara McKelvey

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Tara Shannon McKelvey is an American journalist who is a White House reporter for the BBC and a former correspondent for Newsweek/The Daily Beast. She has reported on topics which include national-security issues from the Middle East, South Asia and Russia.[1]

Career

McKelvey began her journalism career as a clerk at The New York Times, following her graduation from Georgetown University. She is also a frequent contributor to The New York Times Book Review and The American Prospect and a former contributing editor of Marie Claire.[2][3] McKelvey also, at one point, taught a course on National Security and the Media at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.[3] McKelvey is now a White House reporter for the BBC.

Fellowships

In 2011, McKelvey was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in General Nonfiction. McKelvey also won an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship

US covert operations.[3]

McKelvey was also a research fellow at New York University School of Law's Center on Law and Security, an Ochberg Fellow under the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, a Hoover Media Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, and lastly she was a fellow with the Templeton-Cambridge Fellowship in Religion and Science program and in an International Reporting Project done by Johns Hopkins University.[5]

Books

  • Monstering: Inside America's Policy on Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War. Carroll & Graf, 2007.
  • "New Threats to Freedom"
  • "The Impact of 9/11 and the New Legal Landscape"[3]

As editor

  • One of the Guys: Female Torturers and Aggressors. Seal Press, 2007.

References

  1. ^ "Tara S. McKelvey". Georgetown. Archived from the original on 10 June 2015. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
  2. ^ New York Civil Liberties Union - Tara McKelvey profile[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ a b c d e "Fall 2012 - Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy". Shorenstein Center. Archived from the original on 29 March 2013. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
  4. ^ Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship
  5. ^ "Tara McKelvey - New Threats To Freedom". New Threats of Freedom. Archived from the original on 16 December 2012. Retrieved 24 March 2013.