Research Catalog

Title

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Karen DeWitt.

Publication

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

Details

Additional Authors

• DeWitt, Karen, 1944-
• Crowe, Larry F.
• Hickey, Matthew
• HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.

Description

1 online resource (8 video files (3 hr., 44 min., 31 sec.)) : sound, color.

Summary

Journalist and communications executive Karen DeWitt was born on April 18, 1944. She graduated from Miami University with her B.A. degree in English and philosophy. From 1966 to 1968, she enrolled in the U.S. Peace Corps where she served in Ethiopia. DeWitt was hired by the Washington Post as a staff writer in 1977. The New York Times then hired DeWitt as its national correspondent, where she served until 1981. At USA Today, DeWitt served as a foreign correspondent, White House correspondent and national editor. DeWitt was then hired as senior producer for the ABC News television magazine Nightline. She was then appointed to communications executive roles for the Washington D.C. Water and Sewer Authority and The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a civil and human rights coalition. In 2011, DeWitt was named communications manager for the prisoners' rights advocacy group The Sentencing Project.

Alternative Title

• History Makers video oral history with Karen DeWitt
• Karen DeWitt

Subject

• DeWitt, Karen, 1944- > Interviews
• African Americans > Interviews
• African Americans
• Newspaper Reporter

Genre/Form

• Internet videos.
• Interviews.
• Nonfiction films.
• Oral histories.

Credits (note)

• Videographer, Matthew Hickey.

OCLC

1003150561

Title

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Karen DeWitt.

Publisher

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

Country of Producing Entity

United States naf

Playing Time

034431

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

computer

Type of Carrier

online resource

Digital File Characteristics

video file

Performer

Larry Crowe, interviewer.

Credits

Videographer, Matthew Hickey.

Event

Recorded Washington, District of Columbia 2012 June 16.

Source of description

Vendor-supplied metadata.

Connect to:

Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL

Indexed Term

Newspaper Reporter.

Added Author

DeWitt, Karen, 1944- interviewee.

Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.

Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.

HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.