Gayle Reaves was a Pulitzer finalist in 1989, before winning the Pulitzer for International Reporting (as part of the Dallas Morning News team) in 1994 for the series “Violence Against Women: A Question of Human Rights.” With two other reporters, she also won a 1990 George Polk Award, recognizing courageous reporting, for an influential series on the South Texas drug war. In her last several years at the News, she reported extensively Islamic terrorism.

While she has covered – and overseen coverage of – subjects ranging from mental retardation to major earthquakes to the breakup of Yugoslavia, Reaves has for years taken a special interest in women’s issues, both in the news pages and the newsroom. She created a women’s issues beat at the News and played key roles in that paper’s Pulitzer-winning series on violence toward women in cultures around the world. Two other award-winning series were her brainchildren, one on the history and import of women’s suffrage, the other on domestic violence in Dallas County.

Before she joined the News, Reaves worked at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and the Austin American Statesman.  Since moving to the Fort Worth Weekly in 2001, Reaves, although officially wearing an editor’s hat, has continued to report as well.

B.A. University of Texas

B.J. University of Texas