Geneva Overholser

Geneva Overholser

By Geneva Overholser• Diversity• September 11, 2014

Related Article Where Are the Women? Why we need more female newsroom leaders PLUS Read more stories from prominent female leaders The newsroom culture desperately needs to shift from the old “We journalists know news, … Read more

Geneva Overholser, NF ’86

By Geneva Overholser• 75th Anniversary• September 18, 2013

In 1991, The Des Moines Register’s series about a rape victim won a Pulitzer for Public Service. The subject of the series, Nancy Ziegenmeyer, decided to go public after reading a column in which Overholser questioned the practice … Read more

What Is Journalism’s Place in Social Media?

By Geneva Overholser• Technology• September 16, 2009

‘Bringing our journalistic values to these environments that have captured the imagination of millions is one of the most promising ways we have of serving that interest.’ Read more

Tired of Waiting to Move Ahead

By Geneva Overholser• Features• December 15, 2006

With plenty of ideas about how to move journalism into its digital time, a journalist tries to push the industry past its natural inclination to ‘voice the “no ways.”’ Read more

Courage of the Wise and Patient Kind

By Geneva Overholser• June 15, 2006

‘Our craft demands such courage if we are to find a constructive way through the many difficulties that challenge us today.’ Read more

The Inadequacy of Objectivity as a Touchstone

By Geneva Overholser• Opinion• December 15, 2004

Certainly journalism will survive. Indeed, it could even thrive as a result of today’s very real challenges. Journalists need neither fear nor denounce the proliferation of punditry and attitude. Rather, as the media landscape teems ever more vigorously with partisanship … Read more

The Worthiness of Bollinger’s Challenge

By Geneva Overholser• Journalist’s Trade• December 15, 2002

‘For craft training to be accorded due respect does not mean all else must be shunned.’ Read more

Prescient Words Delivered a Decade Ago

By Geneva Overholser• Journalist’s Trade• September 15, 2001

On December 10, 1990, Geneva Overholser spoke to a gathering of Gannett executives. At this dinner, she was presented with an award as Gannett’s Editor of the Year. At the time, she was editor of The Des Moines Register. Overholser … Read more

When the Public Speaks, Do Journalists Listen?

By Geneva Overholser• Features• June 15, 2001

‘I don’t recognize myself or anyone I know in your newspaper.’ Read more

Progress by Washington Post Copyeditors: 1997

By Geneva Overholser• Journalist’s Trade• June 15, 1998

Readers are not sleeping through August, but they sometimes ask if copy editors are: “I want to register dismay about the errors in the July 30 lead story [on the budget agreement] on the front page. There’s a sentence that … Read more