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Geneva Overholser

Geneva Overholser

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It’s Good to Talk

It’s Good to Talk

Members of Cuba’s mass media, which is completely in the hands of the state, cover only what’s convenient for the government. Because of that, in February of 2009, a group…
Ready for the Big One: Making the Case for Disaster Preparedness Reporting

Ready for the Big One: Making the Case for Disaster Preparedness Reporting

In 2002, Mark Schleifstein and a team of reporters in New Orleans wrote “Washing Away,” a five-part series in The Times-Picayune that predicted the devastation of Hurricane Katrina three years…
Debra Adams Simmons

Debra Adams Simmons

Related ArticleWhere Are the Women?Why we need more female newsroom leadersPLUSRead more stories from prominent female leadersI had women who nurtured my career and helped me grow as a newsroom…
Susan Smith Richardson

Susan Smith Richardson

Related ArticleWhere Are the Women?Why we need more female newsroom leadersPLUSRead more stories from prominent female leadersI am lucky. My older sister had been a journalist for several years before…
Wanda Lloyd

Wanda Lloyd

Related ArticleWhere Are the Women?Why we need more female newsroom leadersPLUSRead more stories from prominent female leadersBringing women and people of color into an organization means also respecting them for…

Doing My Own Thing

Iwas 5 or 6 years old when my mother, a great lover of Nigerian folklore, told me a story from one of the oldest tribes in my country. In my…
Margaret Low Smith

Margaret Low Smith

Related ArticleWhere Are the Women?Why we need more female newsroom leadersPLUSRead more stories from prominent female leadersI grew up thinking that anything was possible for women. Newsrooms are inherently aggressive,…
Behind the Data Curtain

Behind the Data Curtain

In my first reporting job out of college, I traveled across Communist Eastern Europe and wrote travel guidebooks. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, I obtained my secret police…
Charlotte Hall

Charlotte Hall

Related ArticleWhere Are the Women?Why we need more female newsroom leadersPLUSRead more stories from prominent female leadersWomen need to be models, models to other women but they need to mentor…