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Linda Killian, director of The Washington Journalism Center and Professor of Journalism

Linda Killian is the director of the Boston University Washington Center and a Boston University professor of journalism. She is a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. and is writing a book on the Democratic Party.

Linda Killian created and launched the Boston University Washington Journalism Center in 2000. This program offers graduate and undergraduate students the chance to spend a semester in Washington writing and reporting on Congress and the federal government for the Boston University Washington News Service which provides coverage for New England news organizations. The program also includes a political reporting class, taught by Professor Killian; internships in the DC bureaus of national news organizations including “USA Today”, “National Public Radio” ABC and NBC and the Washington bureaus of The Los Angeles Times and the Boston Globe; and a weekly brown bag lecture series with newsmakers and journalists. The program’s Web site is www.bu.edu/washjocenter.

The Washington Internship Program offers liberal arts students a chance to spend a semester in Washington doing an internship on Capitol Hill, at a cabinet agency or with one of the city's non-profit organizations and taking classes focusing on U.S. government and American institutions.

Linda Killian is the author of "The Freshmen: What Happened to the Republican Revolution?"  praised by The New York Review of Books and other reviewers as a colorful, well-written and insightful analysis of what happened to the congressional Republicans of 1994. Killian spent two years of extensive reporting and conducted hundreds of interviews to write "The Freshmen" which reveals the maneuvering and intrigues, the successes and failures of the Republican Congress.

She is a columnist for Politico.com and U.S. News & World Report.com and has written for "The Washington Post", "The Los Angeles Times", "The New Republic", "The Weekly Standard", "The American Spectator", "The Christian Science Monitor", "The Boston Globe", “Redbook”, “Washingtonian” and "People" magazine.

Her television appearances include CNN, "Hardball with Chris Matthews", C-SPAN, MSNBC and the Fox News Channel.

From 1993-1995 she was the senior editor of National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" where she was responsible for the editorial content of NPR's national evening news program. Prior to that, she was a reporter at Forbes magazine in New York. She also worked for several major daily newspapers and at United Press International.

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

Read about Linda Killian and "The Freshmen":

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