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Sarah A. McCarty (born 1984) is an American music journalist from Northeast Tennessee.

Life and Career
McCarty graduated from the University of Tennessee in 2006 with a B.A. in journalism and electronic media.

She did an internship with Atlanta magazine from August 2006 through February 2007. While interning in Atlanta, she also wrote freelance articles for area publications.

In June 2007 she started working as a reporter for Grainger Today, a weekly community newspaper in Northeast Tennessee. She was promoted to community editor in 2008. She also wrote freelance feature articles for The Athens Blur Magazine, a music-based publication that served the Athens, Ga. area.

She left Grainger Today June 2010 to pursue a master’s degree at Syracuse University in New York. She was accepted into the Goldring Arts Journalism program at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.