Chris Graves is an associate professor of practice and a Deepe Family Chair in Depth Reporting at the College of Journalism and Mass Communications, teaching foundational reporting and writing and information gathering courses and co-leads the college's investigative reporting course. In addition, she also teaches Mosaic, focused telling the stories of the state's diverse communities. She joined the college in 2020 after a 35-year career working in newspapers, TV and public radio.

Graves has spent more than nine years reporting and writing about an octuple homicide in the Appalachian foothills in southern Ohio that is the state's most complex and costly criminal investigation. A book proposal is currently under review with national publishers.

Graves has spent her career documenting human suffering and the human spirit. A word editor and a newsroom manager, she helped newsrooms "go digital' in the early days and continues to be energized by the future of local news and how technologies can deliver news to various audiences.

She’s been a reporter, line editor, assistant city editor, managing editor and newspaper columnist. She’s worked in print, TV and public radio newsrooms.

Her work has been featured in documentaries, television shows, National Public Radio and referenced in numerous books and cited by former Attorney General Janet Reno as well as used by Harvard researchers.

While metro columnist at the Cincinnati Enquirer, Graves was a member of the team awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting for "Seven Days of Heroin."

In 2020, while working at Minnesota Public Radio, she helped direct online coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic and the police killing of George Floyd.

She has won dozens of local and state awards for her reporting work, as have the reporters she has supervised.

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