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Linda Killian

Director, Journalism Program,
Boston University Washington Center;
Professor of Journalism

BA, Boston University (hon.);
MA, Harvard University.

Professor Killian is a Washington journalist and author of The Freshmen: What Happened to the Republican Revolution? She created and launched the Washington Journalism Program in 2000 and is the director of that program and the Boston University Washington Center. She is currently a public policy fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., a columnist for Politico.com and is working on a book on the Democratic Party.

She has written about politics for the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the New Republic, the Weekly Standard, the American Spectator, the Christian Science Monitor, People, Redbook and Washingtonian magazines. She has also appeared on CNN, CNBC, Fox, CBS and C-SPAN to discuss national politics.

She was the senior editor of National Public Radio's All Things Considered as well as a reporter at Forbes magazine in New York and for several daily newspapers including The Oregonian.

She has a master's degree in public administration from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and graduated cum laude from Boston University with bachelor's degrees in journalism and political science.

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