Gayle Reaves is an American journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize and a George Polk Award.
[1] 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.
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".