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Linda Killian, director of The Washington Journalism Center

Linda Killian is the Director of Boston University's Washington Journalism Center, a joint venture of Boston University's Division of International Programs and the College of Communication.

Linda Killian is a Washington journalist and author of "The Freshmen: What Happened to the Republican Revolution?" a book 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 writing "The Freshmen" which reveals the maneuvering and intrigues, the successes and failures of the 104th Republican Congress.

She has written about politics for "The Washington Post","The Los Angeles Times", "The New Republic", "The Weekly Standard", "The American Spectator", "The Christian Science Monitor", and "The Boston Globe".

Her television appearances include CNN's "Inside Politics", CNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews", C-SPAN's Washington Journal, 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 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.

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