- Gayle Reaves
Gayle Reaves is a
Pulitzer Prize - andGeorge Polk Award -winning journalist, currently the managing editor of the "Fort Worth Weekly "alternative weekly newspaper serving theDallas/Fort Worth Metroplex [ [http://aan.org/alternative/Aan/ViewArticle?oid=oid%3A5891 "Gayle Reaves Named Editor at FW Weekly"] , October 10, 2001,Association of Alternative Newsweeklies ] .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".Reaves was an honors graduate of the
University of Texas at Austin , earning abachelor's degree in journalism in 1973 [The Dallas Morning News, "Morning News wins Pulitzer Prize," The Dallas Morning News, April 13, 1994, A1] [ [http://communication.utexas.edu/alumni/pulitzers/DEV75_006945.html UT-A Pulitzer Prize Winners] ] . She is a Texan, resident inFort Worth .Awards
Reaves was a Pulitzer finalist in 1989, and won a
Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1994 for the series "Violence Against Women: A Question of Human Rights", 14 stories that examined the violence against women in many nations. Reaves was one of 11 reporters and fivephotojournalist s on the "The Dallas Morning News" team that won the award.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 [ [http://www.brooklyn.liu.edu/polk/prev/prev90.html#90 George Polk Award winners] ] .
Reaves is a founder and former president of the
Association for Women Journalists and past president of theJournalism and Women Symposium .References
External links
* [http://aan.org/alternative/Aan/ViewPerson?oid=oid%3A5604 Gayle Reaves profile] ,
Association of Alternative Newsweeklies
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