Tamara Cherry is a trauma researcher, survivor advocate, and award-winning journalist who spent the bulk of her career as a crime reporter in some of Canada’s largest newsrooms, including the Toronto Star, Toronto Sun, and CTV News Toronto. In late 2019, Tamara left her journalism career to form Pickup Communications, a public relations firm that supports trauma survivors and the stakeholders who surround them. It was through this lens that, in May 2020, she began researching the impact of the media on trauma survivors and the impact of trauma on members of the media — a deeply personal and transformational project that ultimately culminated in her non-fiction debut, The Trauma Beat: A Case for Re-Thinking the Business of Bad News. Part-memoir, part-journalism, The Trauma Beat draws on the experiences of more than 100 trauma survivors — from homicides to traffic fatalities, sexual violence to mass violence. Tamara is also the author of All the Bumpy Pebbles, a novel about domestic sex trafficking that was inspired by the stories shared with her by survivors. Tamara is a regular voice on Newstalk 1010 radio in Toronto and across the iHeart Radio Talk Network. She lives in Regina, Saskatchewan with her partner and three kids.