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McCarty moves to WaPo’s Metro desk

August 24, 2023

Posted by Mariam Ahmed

Tara McCarty

The Washington Post has appointed Tara McCarty visual enterprise editor on Metro. She begins Aug. 28.

McCarty joined the Post’s design team in May 2020 as a freelancer, going full-time six months later. She most recently played a key role in the digital and print design of the Post’s Smithsonian “racial brain” project.

Previously, she worked at The Tampa Bay Times for eight years as a design intern, designer, news design director and director of print design.

She also worked at the St. Petersburg Times.

McCarty has a B.A. in mass communication from the University of South Florida.

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