Tamar Hallerman is an award-winning senior reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She covers the Fulton County election interference case and co-hosts the Breakdown podcast. Hallerman moved to Atlanta in late 2019 after four years as the paper's Washington correspondent and nearly a decade covering Capitol Hill. For the AJC, she chronicled President Donald Trump's norm-shattering political rise, Georgia's congressional delegation and political campaigns. Hallerman previously covered Congress, government spending and energy policy for CQ Roll Call and various print and public radio outlets. She attended American University in Washington, D.C. and is a native of Blacksburg, Va.