Reporter
TIME Magazine
Washington D.C.
Tamala Edwards joined TIME's Washington bureau as general assignment reporter in June 1995.
Before coming to Washington, Edwards worked for two years as a TIME reporter in New York covering international news. During that assignment she reported on CD piracy in China, the American cultural revival surrounding jazz man Jelly Roll Morton, and logging practices in Malaysia. Specific stories she has written include an international art world ruckus over a group of Canadian prehistoric figurines; the return of reknowned Chinese track coach Ma Junren; the reclamation of an ancient Jewish text in Bosnia; expansion of MTV News globally; a Pepsi Cola marketing disaster in the Philippines; and a woman-on-the-scene report about a car that drives itself. Edwards was a regular contributor and reporter for the Sightings and People pages in TIME International.
Edwards has also contributed stories and reviews to PEOPLE magazine and Cosmopolitan's Life After College special issues.
Born in Georgia and raised in Texas, Edwards graduated from Stanford University with an Honors B.A. in International Relations. She is single and lives in Washington, D.C.