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Cheryl L. Reed (born 1966) is an American author and
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. She won the 1996 Harvard
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while at the ''
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''. She is the author of ''Poison Girls'', and ''Unveiled: The Hidden Lives of Nuns'', a work of literary journalism. Reed graduated from the
Missouri School of Journalism The Missouri School of Journalism, housed under the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, Columbia, is one of the oldest formal journalism schools in the world. The school provides academic education and practical training in of journalis ...
, with a BA in news writing and photojournalism, and from
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with a MA, and where she was a 1996 Kiplinger Fellow. She has a Master of Fine Arts degree in fiction from
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. She has been a resident at Ragdale, the Vermont Studio Center, New York Mills, Hedgebrook and Norcroft.


Career


Journalistic career

Reed was a reporter at the ''Chicago Sun-Times'', ''Dayton Daily News'', the '' Newport News Daily Press'', and ''
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''. Her work has appeared in '' Mother Jones'', '' U.S. News & World Report'', ''
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Magazine'', ''Salon'', and the ''
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''. Reed also served as senior editor for publications at the
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, in Chicago, Illinois. In 1996 she, and her colleagues at the ''
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'', were nominated as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in Reporting for "Military Secrets" and "Prisoners on the Payroll," a series of investigations into handling misconduct cases in the military. They won Harvard University's Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, for the same series that year. She was a books editor, and editor of the editorial page at the ''
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''. Reed left the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' in 2008, unable to fulfill her promise to change the editorial stance from conservative to progressive, having previously vowed to '"return the paper to its "liberal, working-class roots" and to add "seats to our editorial board so that board members ... reflect hicago'sdiversity."' In 2018, she won the Chicago Writers Book of the Year award, for ''Poison Girls'', in the traditional fictional category.


Academic career

Reed was visiting professor of journalism at the University of St. Thomas, and was previously an assistant professor of journalism at
Northern Michigan University Northern Michigan University (Northern Michigan, Northern or NMU) is a public university in Marquette, Michigan, United States. It was established in 1899 by the Michigan Legislature as Northern State Normal School. In 1963, the state designa ...
, (NMU) and its adviser to NMU's student newspaper ''The North Wind'' for the 2014–15 academic year. She was a Fulbright U.S. Scholar in
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, (2016-2017) where she taught investigative reporting and immersion journalism. In the fall of 2019, she returned to Ukraine, as a Fulbright Specialist teaching investigative journalism. According to her biography, she has plans to go to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and
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as a Fulbright Scholar, in 2021.


Controversy

Reed was voted out of the position as the adviser at Northern Michigan University (NMU) the end of the school year by the newspaper's board of directors, for what Reed claimed was retaliation on the investigative journalism she was teaching her students. Reed brought the board members to federal court in June 2015, but she later pulled out from the case when the judge denied a preliminary injunction that would have reinstated her as adviser. Reed advocated for a new law that offers further protections for student speech and prevents schools and universities from retaliating against media advisors for material written by students. In April 2016, NMU was awarded the national muzzle award, by Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression for its treatment of Reed and the student newspaper. In November 2016, the
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issued a report, "Threats to the Independence of Student Media," citing NMU and its treatment of Reed and the student newspaper as an example of aggressive behavior to stifle investigative reporting.


Personal

Reed is married to former ''Chicago Tribune'' editor Greg Stricharcuk.


Works

* ; Diversion Books, 2017, * ; Penguin, 2010,


Awards and recognition

* 1996 Finalist, Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, (with Carol Hernandez, Jeff Nesmith and Cheryl Reed) Dayton Daily News, "Military Secrets" and "Prisoners on the Payroll", investigations into handling misconduct cases in the military * 1996 Winner, Harvard University's Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, (with Carol Hernandez, Jeff Nesmith and Cheryl Reed) Dayton Daily News, "Military Secrets" and "Prisoners on the Payroll" *2018 Winner, Book of the Year, for Traditional Fiction, ''Poison Girls.''


References


External links


Cheryl Reed's Blog
*Cheyl Reed Discusses Poison Girls
Unveiled: The Hidden Lives of Nuns
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