George Getschow
Instructional Associate Professor, News-Editorial
B.A. Iowa State, M.F.A. Iowa State
George Getschow teaches news reporting and writing practice, feature writing, and narrative nonfiction to students at the Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism. Getschow is also the writer-in-residence for the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Writers Conference of the Southwest, a three-day literary event that David Granger, editor of Esquire magazine, says "is rapidly becoming one of the most vital gathering of writers in America" and Gay Talese says "is the gathering place in the country for serious nonfiction writers who want to deeply explore the craft and learn how its practiced at the highest levels." Before joining the Mayborn, he was a full-time writer, editor and bureau chief at The Wall Street Journal for 16 years, working in the Chicago, Pittsburgh, Dallas and Houston bureaus. He covered Mexico for two years and worked in New York as a rewrite editor for Page One features. Getschow has received a number of national writing awards, including runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 1984, the Robert F. Kennedy Award for "distinguished writing" about the underprivileged and The National Council for the Advancement of Education Writing (NCAEW) first place for best feature series. Some of his Page One feature stories have been anthologized in books, including The Art and Craft of Feature Writing and The Abundant Land. He's currently completing a literary nonfiction book for New York publisher, Henry Holt. The book, Walled Kingdom, grew out of a two-part narrative for The Wall Street Journal.
