Hawes Spencer

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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 . Here he worked as the editor-in-chief.^[1] He is the author of , a book about the violence surrounding Unite the Right rally, the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville in August, 2017.^[2]

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Sources and external links[]

• The Hook
• The Jefferson Theater
• Cavalier Daily article on first weeks of the Hook
• Summer of Hate: Charlottesville, USA

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