Oral history interview with Geneva Overholser, 2003
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- Name
- Overholser, Geneva (Interviewee)
- Frenkel, Karen (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Geneva Overholser, 2003
- Abstract
- 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 Elizabet h 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
- Collection Name
- Washington Press Club women in journalism oral history collection
- Subjects
- Overholser, Geneva
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 2003
- Physical Description
- 211 pages
- Note
- Interviewed by Karen Frenkel on April 29 and May 9, 2003
- Note (Provenance)
- Geneva Overholser, Gift 2004
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 13746367
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Time-Based Media
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/fdh9-pr43
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.