John Craig Flournoy (born June 26, 1951 in

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, USA) is a

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at the

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and a former

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for ''

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'', at which his work included coverage of the latter portion of the civil rights movement. He has taught since 2014 at Cincinnati. From 2003 to 2013, he taught at

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, where in 1986, he received a

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degree in history. He formerly taught courses on computer-assisted reporting, investigative reporting, history of American journalism, and communication law briefly at the

. From 1997 to 1998, while on leave from ''The Dallas Morning News'', he was the Phillip G. Warner Professor of Journalism at

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in Huntsville,

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Education

Flournoy obtained his

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in history with honors from the

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in 1975, his master's in history from SMU in 1986, and his Ph.D. in journalism in 2003 from the Douglas Manship School of Mass Communications at

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Awards and honors

Flournoy has won more than fifty state and national journalism awards, including the Scripps Howard Edward J. Meeman Award for Environmental Reporting and eleven Dallas Club Katie awards, five of which were for investigative reporting.

Family

Flournoy and his wife, Nina P. Flournoy, have three daughters. Mrs. Flournoy is a senior lecturer at Southern Methodist University.

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SMU bio

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