Karen Elliott House (born December 7, 1947[1]) is an American journalist and former managing editor at The Wall Street Journal and its parent company Dow Jones.

She served as President of Dow Jones International and then publisher of the Wall Street Journal before her retirement in the spring of 2006.

The prize was awarded for a series of interviews with Jordan's King Hussein, which anticipated the problems Ronald Reagan's Middle East peace plan would face.

At the Journal, House worked under her husband, Peter R. Kann,[5] Dow Jones CEO and chairman of the board from 1992 until 2006.

At his memorial service on November 29, 2012, she recalled how he was fired as the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Texas in 1970 while she was writing about him as a beginning reporter.