Cheryl L. Reed is an American journalist

Journalist

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, and Director of Strategic Communications at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
She won a 1996 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

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Life

She graduated from the Missouri School of Journalism

Missouri School of Journalism

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, with a BA in newswriting and photojournalism, and from Ohio State University

Ohio State University

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 with a MA, and where she was a 1996 Kiplinger Fellow.

She was a reporter at the Dayton Daily News, the Newport News Daily Press, Florida Today.
She was visiting professor of journalism at the University of St. Thomas

University of St. Thomas (Minnesota)

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She was a reproter and book editor at the Chicago Sun Times.

Her work has appeared in Mother Jones

Mother Jones

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, U.S. News & World Report

U.S. News & World Report

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, the Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, Salon

Salon

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, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

She has been a resident at Ragdale

Ragdale

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, the Vermont Studio Center

Vermont Studio Center

The Vermont Studio Center is a non-profit organization located in the town of Johnson in the U.S. state of Vermont. VSC conducts the largest fine arts and writing residency program in the U.S., with a significant population of international artists in residency...

, New York Mills

New York Mills

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, Hedgebrook

Hedgebrook

Hedgebrook is a rural retreat for women writers on Whidbey Island, Washington, founded in 1988. Hedgebrook's artist in residency program accepts 40 writers each year, who spend 2 to 6 weeks in residence working on their diverse writing projects. Each writer stays in her own hand-crafted cottage....

 and Norcroft.

External links

• Cheryl Reed's Blog
• Unveiled: The Hidden Lives of Nuns
• Cheryl Reed, Global Health Initiative - University of Chicago