Gayle Reaves

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Gayle Reaves is an American journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize and a George Polk Award. She was editor of the Fort Worth Weekly , an alternative newspaper serving the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, from October 2001 to March 2015. [1]

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Biography

Reaves was an honors graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, earning a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1973. [2] [3]

Before joining the Fort Worth Weekly, Reaves worked as a projects reporter, writer and assistant city editor for The Dallas Morning News . She was also a reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram , Austin American-Statesman , the now-defunct Austin Citizen, and began her career at the Paris (TX) News. [4]

Reaves is a founder and former president of the Association for Women Journalists and past president of the Journalism and Women Symposium.

She is a Texan, resident in Fort Worth.

Awards

Reaves was a Pulitzer finalist in 1989,[ citation needed ] and she was one member of a team[ citation needed ] at The Dallas Morning News that won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1994, covering "the epidemic of violence against women in many nations". [5] Eleven reporters and five photojournalists created the 14 story-series "Violence Against Women: A Question of Human Rights".

Reaves won, along with fellow Dallas Morning News reporters David Hanners and David McLemore, the 1990 George Polk Award for regional reporting following a series on South Texas drug wars. [6]

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References

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  2. "Morning News wins Pulitzer Prize", The Dallas Morning News, April 13, 1994, A1.
  3. "UT-A Pulitzer Prize Winners" Archived 2006-09-21 at the Wayback Machine .
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  5. "International Reporting". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-10-30.
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