Mary McNamara (born 1963) is an American journalist and television critic for the ''

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''. She won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.

Biography

McNamara moved from

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in elementary school. She graduated from Westminster Senior High School and attended the

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. While at Missouri, she reported for the '' Columbia Missourian''. Upon her graduation, McNamara wrote for ''

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'', then worked for Whittle Communications. McNamara joined the ''Los Angeles Times'' in 1991 as a features writer and editor. In 2009, she became the ''Times television critic.

References

External links

Mary McNamara at the Los Angeles Times
* 1963 births Living people Journalists from Baltimore Los Angeles Times people Missouri School of Journalism alumni People from Westminster, Maryland Pulitzer Prize for Criticism winners {{US-journalist-1960s-stub