AWC 2006 Annual Professional Conference, September 14-16, 2006 Kansas City, MO
The Heart of It All
Karen Elliott House
Matrix Award Winner
Karen Elliott House
Pulitzer prize winner to receive award in Kansas City in September
Karen Elliott House, senior vice president of Dow Jones & Company and former publisher of all print editions of The Wall Street Journal, has been named the 2006 International Matrix Award winner by the Association for Women in Communications (AWC).
The International Matrix Award, instituted in 1998 by the AWC Board of Directors, rewards an individual in the communications field for achieving the highest level of professional excellence. House will be honored at the Clarion/Matrix Awards Dinner on Saturday, September 16, 2006, at the Hyatt Regency Crown Center Hotel in Kansas City, Mo.
Prior to being appointed to her current position in July 2002, House served as president of the Dow Jones' international group since January 1995. She was responsible for the business and editorial staffs of all Dow Jones overseas publications and services, international sales operations, overseas investments and publishing partnerships. She continues to have oversight responsibility for Dow Jones of CNBC Europe and CNBC Asia Pacific, a business television partnership of Dow Jones and NBC Universal.
House began her journalism career at the Dallas Morning News. In 1974, she joined the Journal's Washington, D.C., bureau where she covered energy, environment and agriculture. She was named diplomatic correspondent in 1978, moved to New York in 1983 as assistant foreign editor and became foreign editor in 1984. In March 1989, she was named vice president of Dow Jones' international group.
In 1984, House received a Pulitzer Prize in international reporting for her coverage of the Middle East. Other journalism awards include: the Overseas Press Club's Bob Considine Award for best daily newspaper interpretation of foreign affairs (1984 and 1988); the University of Southern California's Distinguished Achievement in Journalism Award (1983); the National Press Club's Edwin M. Hood Award for Excellence in Diplomatic Reporting for a series on Saudi Arabia (1982); and Georgetown University's Edward Weintal Award for distinguished coverage of American foreign policy (1980).
House is a director of the Council on Foreign Relations and a former director of the Committee to Protect Journalists. She is a trustee of Boston University, and a member of the board of trustees of RAND. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a former trustee of The Asia Society and a former member of the advisory council for the College of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin.
A native of Matador, Texas, House received a journalism degree from the University of Texas at Austin, where she was managing editor of the student newspaper. In 1992, she received a UT-Austin distinguished alumnus award and the university's College of Communication named her outstanding alumnus in 1996. She was awarded honorary degrees by Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., in 1992 and Boston University in 2003.