Overholser was Director of the USC Annenberg School of Journalism from 2008–13. She previously served as the Curtis B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting at the Missouri School of Journalism, Chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board, Ombudsman of The Washington Post, a member of The New York Times editorial board and Editor of The Des Moines Register, which won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service under her leadership. She is the author of On Behalf of Journalism: A Manifesto for Change and coeditor of the volume The Press in the Oxford University Press Institutions of American Democracy series. Overholser began her career as a reporter for the Colorado Springs Sun. In addition to her positions at The Washington Post and The New York Times, she has been a syndicated columnist for the Washington Post Writers Group, a columnist for the Columbia Journalism Review and a blogger for Poynter.org. She is now an independent journalist based in New York City. She serves on the boards of the Academy of American Poets and the Women’s Media Center, as well as the advisory board of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize board, where she served for nine years, she has served on the boards of the Carnegie Endowment, the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford, the Committee of Concerned Journalists, the Center for Public Integrity and the National Press Foundation, and on the advisory boards of the Knight Foundation and the Poynter Institute. She is a former officer of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Overholser is a graduate of Wellesley College and the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, and she holds a French language certificate from the Sorbonne. She has held a Nieman fellowship at Harvard University and a Congressional fellowship with the American Political Science Association.
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