Hawes Spencer
{{short description|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.{{cite web|last=Ingles|first=Laura|title=Hawes Spencer, founder and editor of The Hook, announces his plans to move on|url=http://www.c-ville.com/hook-editor-hawes-spencer-bows-out/#.UkzpOhZf9G4|publisher=C-Ville|accessdate=3 October 2013}} 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.{{cite book |title=Summer of Hate: Charlottesville, USA |isbn=978-0813942087 |last1=Spencer |first1=Hawes |year=2018 |publisher=University of Virginia Press }}{{cite journal |last1=Webb |first1=Clive |title=Summer of Hate: Charlottesville, USA by Hawes Spenser (review) |journal=The Public Historian |date=2019 |volume=41 |issue=4 |pages=136–137 |doi=10.1525/tph.2019.41.4.136 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/744245/summary |access-date=December 3, 2022 |issn=1533-8576|url-access=subscription }}{{cite journal |last1=Cohen |first1=Michael Mark |title=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=Journal of Southern History |date=2019 |volume=85 |issue=4 |pages=974–976 |doi=10.1353/soh.2019.0257 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/739588/summary |access-date=December 3, 2022 |issn=2325-6893|url-access=subscription }}
References
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Sources and external links
- [http://www.readthehook.com/ The Hook]
- [http://jeffersontheater.com/ The Jefferson Theater]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20071017182317/http://www.cavalierdaily.com/CVArticle.asp?ID=10981&pid=820 Cavalier Daily article on first weeks of the Hook]
- [https://www.amazon.com/Summer-Hate-Charlottesville-Hawes-Spencer/dp/081394208X Summer of Hate: Charlottesville, USA]
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Category:American male journalists
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:Writers from Charlottesville, Virginia
Category:Journalists from Virginia
Category:21st-century American writers
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