Jocelyn Foster Tatum is a journalist living in Fort Worth, Texas who loves to write about people and believes any topic in the news is told best by putting a face on it, as she likes to tell her college journalism students and the contributing writers she mentors. It is in people’s stories that readers start to care about important topics like immigration, sex trafficking, intellectual and developmental disabilities and more.  

Jocelyn has an undergraduate degree in philosophy and a master’s degree in narrative journalism. Philosophy was a study of ideas and human nature on a macroscopic level, and journalism is the continuation of her lifelong study and love of people.

After a stint as a general assignment reporter at a daily newspaper, Jocelyn moved back home to Fort Worth and began teaching as a college journalism instructor while freelance writing for magazines. She has been publishing narratives, long and short, for more than 16 years and taught for 12.

Her most recent project she is most proud of was as the founding executive editor of a meaningful new women’s magazine in North Texas, One To Know Magazine. She has built a team of talented and creative minds, guiding and mentoring them in the craft of feature writing, longform and narrative journalism to connect women (and men) near and far. 

Journalist | editor | educator

Email: jocelyn.tatum@gmail.com