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Tish Wells

Tish Wells

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E-mail Tish at twells@mcclatchydc.com

Tish Wells is the Washington Bureau researcher and assistant web mistress. A graduate of the Pratt Institute in New York, Tish also holds a master of Library Science degree from the University of Maryland in College Park. She has worked in law firms, the National Library of Medicine and as a free-lance book researcher. She served as a senior librarian at USA Today and Gannett News Service for more than a dozen years before joining Knight Ridder in 1999.

Working with Chatterjee and Raghavan, she won a 2002 Overseas Press Club award for Best International Reporting on Human Rights for the bureau's chocolate slavery package "A Taste of Slavery." In 2005, she and Jonathan Landay won an Award of Distinction from the Medill School of Journalism for "Iraqi exiles fed exaggerated tips to news media."

Tish Wells's Latest Story

Insight to China imbues ‘The Last Days of Old Beijing'

By Tish Wells | McClatchy Newspapers

Michael Meyer's "The Last Days of Old Beijing" is a mixture of romanticism and Chinese pragmatism and an attractive, if meandering, profile of a city in ceaseless change. The romance, and Meyer's sorrow, comes from the destruction of neighborhoods and communities that's transforming the city for the 2008 Olympics. It's the obliteration of history that Meyer, who has written for Time and Smithsonian magazines, describes with crispness and detail. His insight and sympathy for the Chinese people and the city comes through on every page. » read more

Posted on Tue, July 8, 2008

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