Geneva Overholser overholserg@missouri.edu Geneva Overholser, a 1986 Nieman fellow, holds the Curtis B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting for the Missouri School of Journalism, in its Washington, D.C., bureau.

 

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Higher profits, lower costs: to what end?
COMMENTARY | February 21, 2006
Lawrence E. Mitchell and Geneva Overholser locate the news industry’s staff cuts, smaller news holes and lessened air time for news as part of a larger, dismal portrait of the American economy: the result of a maximum-profit culture.