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Name: |
Guy Reel |
| Title: |
Associate Professor of Mass Communication |
| Education:
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Ph.D., Ohio University
M.A., University of Memphis
B.S., University of Tennessee
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| Office: |
210 Johnson Hall |
| Phone: |
803/323-4531 |
| E-mail: |
reelg@winthrop.edu |
| Web: |
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| Area(s):
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Journalism, Mass Communication, International Communication, Criminology
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Dr. Reel joined the faculty in 2002 after an 17-year career with the Memphis Commercial Appeal and three years as a Scripps Teaching Fellow in the doctoral program at Ohio University in Athens. At the Commercial Appeal, he started as a general assignment reporter and bureau chief of the newspaper's Columbus, Miss., bureau. He then was capital bureau chief, columnist, political writer, and business and government reporter for the Commercial Appeal Little Rock, Ark., bureau for six years while Bill Clinton was governor. Reel returned to Memphis as education reporter for two years and a swing editor for one year before becoming deputy metro editor for seven years. He is author of Unequal Justice: Wayne Dumond, Bill Clinton and the Politics of Rape in Arkansas and The National Police Gazette and the Making of the Modern American Man, 1879-1906, and co-author of The Blood of Innocents.