Tish Wells is the Washington Bureau researcher, Web mistress and video editor. 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 freelance 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 former Knight Ridder correspondents Sumana Chatterjee and Sudarsan Raghavan, Wells won a 2002 Overseas Press Club award for Best International Reporting on Human Rights for an examination of child slave labor in the chocolate industry, entitled "A Taste of Slavery." In 2005, she and correspondent Jonathan Landay won an Award of Distinction from the Medill School of Journalism for the story "Iraqi exiles fed false information to news media."

She now covers popular culture such as books, movies, museums, Star Wars, Lucasfilm, Doctor Who and many other interestings topics.

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