Karen Elliott House

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Karen Elliott House was appointed publisher of the Wall Street Journal, and a senior vice president of Dow Jones by her husband, then Dow Jones CEO Peter Kann.

House, a native of Matador, Texas, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1984 in international reporting for her coverage of the Middle East while a reporter with the Wall Street Journal. House's stories were a series of interviews with Jordan's King Hussein, which anticipated the problems Ronald Reagan's Middle East peace plan would face.

House is a Board Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

House is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin.