Craig
Flournoy
Associate Professor
Telephone: 214.768.3395
At SMU since August 1, 2003
Biography
Craig is married to Nina Flournoy, a senior lecturer at SMU. He is the father of three daughters.
Education
Ph.D. in journalism, Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge;
M.A. in history, SMU;
B.A. in history with honors, University of New Orleans
Research
Media coverage of the Civil Rights Movement
Distinctions
1986 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. Finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting.
Other national awards: the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award; the Associated Press Managing Editors Association’s Public Service Award; the Investigative Reporters and Editors’ Medal for Outstanding Investigative Reporting; the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Reporting; the Scripps Howard Edward J. Meeman Award for Environmental Reporting.
Publications
Columbia Journalism Review; Journalism & Mass Communication Educator; Newspaper Research Journal.
Professional Experience
Craig has been an investigative reporter for the Dallas Morning News for 22 years.