Tara McKelvey is a correspondent for Newsweek and The Daily Beast. She has written for The New York Times Book Review, Marie Claire, and The American Prospect. McKelvey was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011 in General Nonfiction. She is the author of Monstering: Inside America’s Policy of Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War and has been a contributor to two other books, New Threats to Freedom and The Impact of 9/11 and the New Legal Landscape. She taught a course on National Security and the Media at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. For her investigative work on national security, she has received support from Northwestern University’s Carnegie National Security Journalism Initiative and the Alicia Patterson Foundation. As a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center, McKelvey wrote about the relationship between the media and U.S. covert operations.
Police Violence, Racial Injustice, and the Press: Reflections on Coverage of the Chauvin Trial
May 28, 2021
This event aired on May 28, 2021 as part of the Shorenstein Center’s new Alumni Fellows Network speaker series, featuring former Shorenstein fellows discussing major topics in the news, and their current work.
