Bernie Reeves Biography


BERNIE REEVES

EDITOR & PUBLISHER
RALEIGH METRO MAGAZINE
Born Raleigh, NC 1947; AB History, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1969


FOUNDER:

  • Spectator weekly, the first city weekly in the South (1978)
  • Triangle Business Journal, the first business weekly in North Carolina (1984)
  • Triad Business Journal (1986)
  • North Carolina Architect Magazine (1982)
  • Raleigh Metro Magazine, four-color city/regional magazine serving Raleigh-Research Triangle-Eastern North Carolina (1999)
  • Raleigh International Spy Conference (2003)


Political commentator for area broadcast media; Lecturer on publishing, politics and intelligence matters; Featured on BBC World Service program on the New South; Guest on Bill Friday's North Carolina People; Winner of the Benjamin Fine Award for Education Writing; The NC Governor's Business in the Arts Award; Named to Who's Who in America (1992) Member: Association of Former Intelligence Officers Pumpkin Papers Irregulars; Captain Cook Society


Community Service:

  • First chairman of the Raleigh Downtown Advisory Committee Hilltop Home for Severely Retarded Children
  • President of the Research Triangle, English-Speaking Union Advisory Board Member, Raleigh's Theatre-In-Park
  • Business Advisory Committee, NC Secretary of State
  • Humanities Foundation and Public Relations Boards, NCSU
  • Friends of the Library, NCSU
  • Arts & Sciences Committee, UNC-Chapel Hill
  • Business Friends, NC Museum of Art
  • Advisory Board: Raleigh Hall of Fame