Gayle Reaves is a Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize

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- and George Polk Award-winning journalist, currently the managing editor of the Fort Worth Weekly

Fort Worth Weekly

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alternative weekly

Alternative weekly

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 newspaper

Newspaper

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 serving the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex

Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex

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Before joining the Fort Worth Weekly, Reaves worked as a projects reporter, writer and assistant city editor for The Dallas Morning News

The Dallas Morning News

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. She was also a reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

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, Austin American-Statesman

Austin American-Statesman

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, 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

University of Texas at Austin

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, earning a bachelor's degree

Bachelor's degree

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 in journalism in 1973. She is a Texan

Texas

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, resident in Fort Worth.

Awards

Reaves was a Pulitzer finalist in 1989, and won a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting

Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting

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 in 1994

1994 Pulitzer Prize

- Journalism awards :*Public Service:**Akron Beacon Journal, for its broad examination of local racial attitudes and its subsequent effort to promote improved communication in the community.*Spot News Reporting:...

 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 five photojournalists 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.

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

External links

• Gayle Reaves profile, Association of Alternative Newsweeklies
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