Elle Reeve ( born Elspeth Reeve ;

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pronounced ) is an American journalist and correspondent for

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. She previously worked for HBO's '' Vice News Tonight'', where she won a Peabody Award for her coverage of the 2017

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in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Career

Reeve earned her

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degree at the Missouri School of Journalism in 2005. In the 2000s, Reeve was a political editor at ''The Wire''; later that decade she joined ''

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'', before being let go in December 2007 by her then-editor,

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, due to her involvement in the

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. In Reeve's view, she was let go because Foer was simply "tired of dealing with the scandal". Reeve has also written articles which have appeared in ''

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'' and ''

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''. Reeve covered the August 2017

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

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and other demonstrating white supremacists, capturing footage of them carrying

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while chanting " Jews will not replace us!" which went viral. Her report, entitled ''Charlottesville: Race and Terror'', earned both her and ''Vice News Tonight'' a Peabody Award, four Emmy Awards, and a

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. In 2018, ''

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'' included Reeve on their 2018 list of the "most creative people in business". She was also nominated in the journalist category at the tenth annual Shorty Awards. , Reeve is a correspondent for CNN based in

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Personal life

On December 31, 2018, Reeve married Jeremy Greenfield; She had previously been married to

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(m. 2007). , Reeve resides in New York City.

References

External links

''Charlottesville: Race and Terror''
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