Oral history interview with Geneva Overholser, 2003

Scope and Contents

Education: Wellesley College, Northwestern Journalism School; positions held at Colorado Springs Sun, The New York Times, the Des Moines Register, the Washington Post, endowed chair at Missouri School of Journalism, Pulitzer Board, American Society of Newspaper Editors; experience as freelance journalist abroad, reporter, editor, columnist, ombudsman, legislative assistant to Gary Hart and Elizabeth Holtzman; Neiman fellowship; story of Nancy Ziegenmeyer's sexual assault in the Des Moines Register; Pulitzer Prize; views on the tension between feminism and journalism, profit pressures and responsibility to readership; reminiscence on 9/11 and the change in news coverage during the subsequent war in Iraq; discussion of the success of embedded reporters and the growing trend of human interest reporting over political reporting

Subjects

• Frenkel, Karen, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories.
• Overholser, Geneva--Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright by the Washington Press Club Foundation, 2004