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Office of News and Information
Johns Hopkins University
901 South Bond Street, Suite 540
Baltimore, Maryland 21231
Phone: 443-287-9960 | Fax: 443-287-9920

October 13, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Dennis O'Shea
443-287-9960
dro@jhu.edu


Reeves Named Director of News and Information at Johns Hopkins

Tracey A. Reeves, a former reporter and editor at The Washington Post, has been appointed director of news and information at The Johns Hopkins University.
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Tracey A. Reeves

Reeves will be responsible for media relations for the university's central administration and Homewood campus and for disseminating news about Johns Hopkins through non-traditional media and other means.

Reeves had been with the Post since 1999, serving as a staff writer, as chief of the Anne Arundel and Prince George's bureaus and, since 2007, as assistant Maryland editor. Previously, she was a national and regional reporter for Knight-Ridder Newspapers and a reporter for the Providence Journal and New Bedford (Mass.) Standard-Times.

She has been a Casey Journalism Center Fellow and a Knight Center for Specialized Journalism Fellow and, as a Knight Ridder reporter, shared in the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for public service awarded to the Grand Forks (N.D.) Herald.

Reeves will report to Dennis O'Shea, executive director of communications and public affairs at Johns Hopkins. She is a 1985 graduate of Illinois State University.

Reporters/editors: Reeves can be reached at 443-287-9960 (office), 443-986-4053 (mobile), 301-621-5117 (home), and treeves@jhu.edu (e-mail).