Elle Reeve

Elspeth "Elle" Reeve^[a] (born 1981 or 1982^[1]) is an American journalist. Before joining CNN as a correspondent in 2019, she reported on the 2017 white-nationalist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia for HBO's Vice News Tonight. Reeve and Vice News Tonight won a Peabody Award, four Emmy Awards, and a George Polk Award for their reporting.

Elle Reeve
Reeve in 2022
Born	1981 or 1982 (age 42–43)[1]
Nationality	American
Other names	Elspeth Reeve[2]
Education	University of Missouri (BA)
Occupation	Journalist
Years active	2005–present
Known for	Reporting for CNN and HBO's Vice News Tonight
Notable work	Charlottesville: Race and Terror

Education and career

Reeve attended the Missouri School of Journalism, earning a Bachelor of Journalism degree in 2005. After graduating, she interned at Time magazine and worked for the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C.^[4]

Before joining Vice News, Reeve was a senior editor at The New Republic and politics editor at The Wire.^[5] She has also written articles for The Atlantic and The Daily Beast.^[6] While working for The New Republic, Reeve was assigned to fact-check allegations by her then-husband Scott Thomas Beauchamp of widespread American war crimes against Iraqi civilians. The allegations were later retracted after facing criticism by conservative bloggers.^[1][7]

Reeve covered the August 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia for Vice News Tonight,^[8] during which she interviewed neo-Nazi Christopher Cantwell and other white supremacist demonstrators, capturing soon-to-be-viral footage of attendees carrying tiki torches while chanting "Jews will not replace us!".^[6] Her report, entitled Charlottesville: Race and Terror, earned both her and Vice News Tonight a Peabody Award,^[9][10] four Emmy Awards,^[9][11] and a George Polk Award.^[9][12][13]

In 2018, Fast Company included Reeve on their 2018 list of the "most creative people in business".^[14] She was nominated for a Shorty Award for journalism the same year.^[15] Reeve joined CNN as a correspondent in 2019.^[9]

Personal life

Reeve married United States Army Private Scott Thomas Beauchamp in 2007;^[1] they later divorced.^{[citation needed]} On New Year's Eve in 2018, Reeve married Jeremy Greenfield.^[16] As of 2024^[update], Reeve resides in New York City.^[17] She gave birth to her first child in February 2024.^[18]

Selected publications

• Reeve, Elle (2024). Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-9821-9888-6.^[19][20]

Notes

1. "Elle" is pronounced /ˈɛliː/^[3]