Elspeth "Elle" Reeve (born ) is an American journalist. Before joining

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as a correspondent in 2019, she reported on the 2017 white-nationalist

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in Charlottesville, Virginia for HBO's '' Vice News Tonight''. Reeve and ''Vice News Tonight'' won a

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, four

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, and a

George Polk Award The George Polk Awards in Journalism are a series of American journalism awards presented annually by Long Island University in New York in the United States. A writer for Idea Lab, a group blog hosted on the website of PBS, described the awar ...

for their reporting.

Education and career

Reeve attended the

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, earning a

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degree in 2005. After graduating, she interned at ''Time'' magazine and worked for the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C. Before joining ''

Vice News Vice News (stylized as VICE News) is Vice Media's alternative current affairs channel, producing daily documentary essays and video through its website and YouTube channel. It promotes itself on its coverage of "under-reported stories". Vice Ne ...

'', Reeve was a senior editor at ''

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'' and politics editor at ''

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''. She has also written articles for ''

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'' and ''

The Daily Beast ''The Daily Beast'' is an American news website focused on politics, media, and pop culture. Founded in 2008, the website is owned by IAC Inc. It has been characterized as a "high-end tabloid" by Noah Shachtman, the site's editor-in-chief ...

''. While working for ''The New Republic'', Reeve was assigned to fact-check allegations by her then-husband Scott Thomas Beauchamp of widespread American war crimes against Iraqi civilians. The allegations were later retracted after facing criticism by conservative bloggers. Reeve covered the August 2017

in Charlottesville, Virginia for ''Vice News Tonight'', during which she interviewed neo-Nazi Christopher Cantwell,

alt-right The alt-right (abbreviated from alternative right) is a Far-right politics, far-right, White nationalism, white nationalist movement. A largely Internet activism, online phenomenon, the alt-right originated in the United States during the late ...

leader Richard B. Spencer and other white supremacist demonstrators, capturing soon-to-be-viral footage of attendees carrying tiki torches while chanting " Jews will not replace us!". Her report, entitled ''Charlottesville: Race and Terror'', earned both her and ''Vice News Tonight'' a

, four

, and a

. In 2018, ''

Fast Company ''Fast Company'' is an American business magazine published monthly in print and online, focusing on technology, business, and design. It releases six print issues annually. History ''Fast Company'' was founded in November 1995 by Alan Webb ...

'' included Reeve on their 2018 list of the "most creative people in business". She was nominated for a Shorty Award for journalism the same year. Reeve joined

as a correspondent in 2019.

Personal life

Reeve married United States Army Private Scott Thomas Beauchamp in 2007; they later divorced. On New Year's Eve in 2018, Reeve married Jeremy Greenfield. , Reeve resides in New York City. She gave birth to her first child in February 2024.

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