Gayle Reaves

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Gayle Reaves is a Pulitzer Prize- and George Polk Award-winning journalist, currently the managing editor of the Fort Worth Weekly alternative weekly newspaper serving the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex^[1].

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 a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1973^[2]^[3]. She is a Texan, resident in Fort Worth.

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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 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^[4].

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