He has taught since 2014 at Cincinnati. From 2003 to 2013, he taught at Southern Methodist University, where in 1986, he received a Master of Arts degree in history. He formerly taught courses on computer-assisted reporting, investigative reporting, history of American journalism, and communication law briefly at the University of Cincinnati. From 1997 to 1998, while on leave from The Dallas Morning News, he was the Phillip G. Warner Professor of Journalism at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas.[2]
Flournoy has won more than fifty state and national journalism awards, including the Scripps Howard Edward J. Meeman Award for Environmental Reporting[1] and eleven Dallas Club Katie awards, five of which were for investigative reporting.[2]
Family
Flournoy and his wife, Nina P. Flournoy, have three daughters. Mrs. Flournoy is a senior lecturer at Southern Methodist University.[1]