Tara’s passion is diving into breaking, political and investigative news stories and she has traveled the state, country and world to tell them. Some of the major coverage events include the Virginia Tech Massacre, the 2008/2012/2016/2020 presidential races and Hurricane Katrina.
Tara has had 12 days named in her honor in communities across New York and was presented with ‘keys’ to the cities of White Plains and Biloxi, Mississippi.
– Cynosis Media’s ‘Top 100 Women in American Media’ in 2023
– City and State Magazine’s ‘Power 100’ list in 2019
– Voted ‘Top Media Personality’ by the readers of Westchester Magazine for six years
– MPAC organization’s ‘Woman of the Year’ in 2019
– RDC Center’s ‘Spirit of Compassion’ award in 2020
-Additional honors from the Guidance Center of Westchester, the Rockland Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, The Alliance for Safe Kids and the New Rochelle Chamber of Commerce for in-depth coverage of the heroin outbreak.
Tara was a 2005 Walter Cronkite political fellow and spends much of her time producing, writing and reporting News 12’s political coverage. Tara has interviewed presidents, governors and reported live from state and national political conventions. Tara also spent years investigating the rise of antisemitism across the tri-state in a special project titled ‘Hate at Home’.
She has also reported on many high-profile criminal cases and led News 12’s coverage of Bernie Madoff, Ben Novack Jr. and Robert Durst. Tara’s investigative reporting of Durst made international headlines in 2021 and led up to his indictment in Westchester. Tara also spent four years covering the 9/11 health crisis.
Before joining News 12, she worked on-air at two NBC stations; first as a reporter in Iowa, then as a main anchor/talk show host in Elmira, NY. She started her career working jobs/internships at The White House, Capitol Hill, CNN’s White House unit and CBS News during the 2000 presidential elections and travel writing for the Miami Herald. Outside of work, Tara’s passion is the ‘private race to space’. Her dream one day is to visit the final frontier on board a Virgin Galactic flight