TARA PARKER-POPE
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Tara Parker-Pope is the Well+Being editor for The Washington Post. She is an editor and columnist who has devoted most of her career to consumer health news and service journalism. Before joining The Post, she was the founding editor of "Well," the New York Times’s consumer health site. She was part of the newsroom team that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for public service for coverage of the pandemic. In 2013, she won a News and Documentary Emmy for “Life, Interrupted,” a video series about living with cancer in your 20s, for which she was the senior editorial producer. Her story “Kept From a Dying Partner’s Bedside” prompted President Barack Obama to issue new rules guaranteeing hospital visitation rights for same-sex couples. Before joining the Times in 2007, Parker-Pope was a health columnist for the Wall Street Journal, where she worked in the Dallas, London and New York offices. She has also worked as a staff reporter for the Houston Chronicle and the Austin-American Statesman. Her most recent book is “For Better: The Science of a Good Marriage” (Dutton, May 2010). The daughter of an Air Force pilot, Tara grew up in Arizona, Japan, Taiwan, Texas and Ohio. She is a co-founder of East Coast Power Volleyball Club, one of the largest youth volleyball programs in the United States. She lives in Washington.
Honors and Awards: Emmy Award, GLAAD Media Award, Columbia Nursing School 2nd Century Award, Front Page Award, part of the New York Times newsroom team awarded the Pulitzer Prize for public service for coverage of the pandemic.




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