USC Annenberg
Veteran journalist Geneva Overholser will leave her post as director of the University of Southern California’s Annenberg’s School of Journalism in June 2013, the university announced Friday.
She was appointed to a five-year term as director in 2008.
“During the past four years, USC Annenberg’s journalism school has transformed its curriculum, strengthened its digital expertise and doubled the size of the public relations program faculty,” a release from the school says.
Overholser launched several key initiatives at USC Annenberg, including Neon Tommy, the award-winning Annenberg digital news site, along with civic engagement projects such as Intersections South LA, a hyper-local news site.
The school is looking for a replacement, it said in the release. Overholser — who has written for Poynter.org and was formerly on the institute’s advisory board — said on Twitter she’s heading to New York with her husband David Westphal:
@uscannenberg makes it official annenberg.usc.edu/News%20and%20E… We head to NYC in June, #ascj searches for a new J school leader.
— Geneva Overholser (@genevaoh) November 16, 2012
