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Mallary Tenore

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Mallary Tenore Tarpley is the associate director of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin. She also teaches journalism classes at UT’s School of Journalism and Media. Her articles and personal essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Dallas Morning News, among other publications.

"She was delicate the way a ribbon of steel holds up its part of a bridge."

“She was delicate the way a ribbon of steel holds up its part of a bridge.”

I love that feeling when a passage promises you that a story is worth sticking with. I had this experience recently when reading Wesley Morris’ profile of the late Cicely…
February 18, 2021