A former editor of the Des Moines Register now living in New York City, Overholser speaks and writes about the future of journalism.
[1] She was editor of the Des Moines Register when the paper won a Pulitzer Gold Medal for Public Service for a series on an Iowa woman who was raped.
From 1989 to 1997, she was a board member of the Pulitzer Prizes at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, serving as chair in her final year.
Overholser held the Curtis B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting in the Washington bureau of the University of Missouri School of Journalism from 2000 to 2008.
[4] She is a former board member of the Women's Media Center, the Academy of American Poets, the Committee of Concerned Journalists, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Knight fellowships at Stanford and the American Society of Newspaper Editors, as well as the journalism advisory committees of the Knight Foundation and the Poynter Institute.