American journalist
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]
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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