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Hawes Spencer

Hawes Spencer

American journalist

Hawes Spencer is the founder and editor of The Hook, the weekly newspaper in Charlottesville, Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley. He is also a founder of Charlottesville's other alternative newsweekly C-ville Weekly and owned and operated Charlottesville's Jefferson Theater from 1992 to 2006.

Career

Spencer covered Charlottesville news for 23 years. He founded The Hook on February 7, 2002, with Bill Chapman and Rob Jiranek. Here he worked as the editor-in-chief.[1] He is the author of Summer of Hate, a book about the violence surrounding the Unite the Right rally, the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville in August, 2017.[2][3][4]

References

  1. [1]
    Ingles, Laura. "Hawes Spencer, founder and editor of The Hook, announces his plans to move on". C-Ville. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
  2. [2]
    Spencer, Hawes (2018). Summer of Hate: Charlottesville, USA. ISBN 978-0813942087.
  3. [3]
    Webb, Clive (2019). "Summer of Hate: Charlottesville, USA by Hawes Spenser (review)". The Public Historian. 41 (4): 136–137. ISSN 1533-8576. Retrieved December 3, 2022.
  4. [4]
    Cohen, Michael Mark (2019). "Charlottesville 2017: The Legacy of Race and Inequity ed. by Louis P. Nelson, Claudrena N. Harold, and: Summer of Hate: Charlottesville, USA by Hawes Spencer (review)". Journal of Southern History. 85 (4): 974–976. doi:10.1353/soh.2019.0257. ISSN 2325-6893. Retrieved December 3, 2022.


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