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2006 James Madison Award Recipients

        Craig Flournoy is an assistant professor of journalism at Southern Methodist University.  He was an investigative reporter for The Dallas Morning News for 22 years.  Flournoy won more than 50 state and national journalism awards including the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.  He also was a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting.

        Other national awards include the Associated Press Managing Editors Association's Public Service Award, the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award, the Investigative Reporters and Editors' Medal for Outstanding Investigative Reporting, the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Reporting and the Scripps Howard Edward J. Meeman Award for Environmental Reporting.

        Flournoy received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history with honors in 1975 from the University of New Orleans.  He received a Master of Arts degree in history in 1986 from Southern Methodist University.  In 1997-98, he was the Philip G. Warner Professor of Journalism at Sam Houston State University, the only working journalist to hold that chair.  In 2003, Flournoy received the first doctorate awarded by the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.

        Dan Malone is a journalism instructor at Tarleton State University and a Texas journalist who has worked in both the mainstream and alternative media.

        Before joining Tarleton, he split his time teaching at the University of North Texas, where he founded the Distributed Reporting Project at the Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism, and writing for Fort Worth Weekly, the alternative newspaper in Cowtown.  Prior to that, he worked at The Dallas Morning News, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and the Corpus Christi Caller-Times.

        He received his master's degree from UNT's Mayborn Institute and his undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was editor of the student newspaper, The Daily Texan.

        He is the recipient of numerous journalism awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism for stories he and a colleague wrote about civil rights violations by Texas police officers. He is also the co-author of “America's Condemned: Death Row Inmates in Their Own Words.”

        Gayle Reaves has been the editor of the Fort Worth Weekly for the past five years.  Prior to the Weekly she worked at The Dallas Morning News, where she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for international reporting for a team-produced series on international implications of violence against women.  She also has worked at both the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Austin American-Statesman.

        She is a previous recipient of the George Polk Award for courageous regional reporting.  While under Gayle's direction, the Weekly received The Press Club of Dallas' Katie Award for “Best Paper” in its division in both 2004 and 2005.  She is the immediate past president of the Society of Professional Journalists, Fort Worth Pro Chapter and the co-founder and past president of the Association for Women Journalists.