Karen Elliott House
Journalist and former newspaper publisher
Karen Elliott House is an American journalist who rose from reporter to publisher of The Wall Street Journal. She won a Pulitzer Prize and has written about Saudi Arabia.
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American Born 1947 in Matador, United States
About Karen Elliott House
Karen Elliott House was born in Matador, Texas, in 1947, and studied journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. She has also studied and taught at Harvard University, where she was a senior fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. At The Wall Street Journal she worked as a reporter and foreign editor. She later became president of Dow Jones International and then publisher, retiring in 2006. Her Middle East coverage earned her a Pulitzer Prize in 1984. Her book On Saudi Arabia was published by Knopf in 2012. It draws on her years of reporting in the kingdom, offers a picture of Saudi society and culture, and asks how fragile the ruling regime is.