Karen Elliott House
Karen Elliott House ( born December 7, 1947 in Matador, Texas) is an American journalist and former managing director and editor of the Wall Street Journal.
House grew up in North Texas. She studied at the University of Texas at Austin journalism. She became famous by winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for her report on the Middle East for the Wall Street Journal. The report consisted of a series of interviews with Jordan's King Hussein, in which he predicted the problems of the peace plan for the Middle East by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
Your career with the Wall Street Journal began in 1974 as a reporter. In 1983 she became an assistant to the foreign report, and then in 1984 foreign reporter. It was then in 1995 Vice-President of Dow Jones International Group, the publisher of the journal. The Board chose in 2002 the Issuer, responsible for the weekend edition. Her second husband Peter R. Kann, whom she married in 1984, also worked in the management of the publisher. In 2006, House retired.
Karen House is on the board of the Council on Foreign Relations. In the list of most powerful women by Forbes magazine in 2005 it was listed on rank 73.