Charlie Reed (journalist)

Charlie M. Reed is an American journalist and former Yokota Bureau correspondent for Stars and Stripes.^[1]

She graduated from the University of Florida in 2001. She reported for Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers and the Osceola News-Gazette, where she returned to stateside in 2014.

Awards

• 2009 George Polk Award

Works

• "Files prove Pentagon is profiling reporters", Stars and Stripes, Charlie Reed, Kevin Baron, Leo Shane III, August 27, 2009
• "Journalists' recent work examined before embeds", Stars and Stripes Charlie Reed, August 24, 2009
• "6-year-old’s birthday party inspires community outpouring after online post", The Osceola News-Gazette Charlie Reed, February 14, 2015

Criticism

Reed and her colleagues' reporting - for which they won the 2009 George Polk Award for military reporting - was harshly criticized by former Stars and Stripes Ombudsman Mark Prendergast in a multiple part series.

• "Series on screening needed follow-up reporting", Stars and Stripes, MARK PRENDERGAST, Stars and Stripes ombudsman, February 12, 2010
• "Stories on media screening weak on sourcing", Stars and Stripes, MARK PRENDERGAST, Stars and Stripes ombudsman, February 23, 2010
• "When ‘secret’ may not mean secret", Stars and Stripes, MARK PRENDERGAST, Stars and Stripes ombudsman, March 17, 2010