Linda Killian, Director 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. She created and launched the Boston University Washington Journalism Center in 2000.... [more]

Mason McAllister, Newsroom Manager

Mason McAllister has been Newsroom Manager since Fall 2004. In January 2004 he took an early retirement offer from The Washington Post, where he worked as an editor for 34 years. At The Post he was chief of the Style copy desk before joining Metro to work on an effort to provide zoned local news to the readers. Before retiring he was in charge of the production and design of the 16 zoned Extra sections now produced by the Post each week. While attending Georgia State University, where he majored in political science, ... [more]

Richard Frank, Newsroom Editor

Richard Frank has been newsroom editor since the fall of 2000. He retired three years earlier from National Journal , the Washington-based policy and politics weekly, where he had been the editor and vice president for more than 20 years. Before that, he was the magazine's legal affairs and then international economics and trade reporter and associate editor (1971-75) and managing editor (1975-76)... [more]

Les Kretman, Newsroom Editor

Les Kretman, COM '63, recently retired as a producer at NBC News in Washington. Most recently, he was assigned to the White House where he coordinated the network's coverage there for nine years. He also covered the Presidential campaign in 2004 and has traveled extensively with the White House press corps.  Prior to that he was the bureau's deputy bureau chief, and spent time as an NBC producer overseas based in Germany. Before joining NBC News...[more],

Robert Schlesinger, co-instructor for Political Reporting

Robert Schlesinger is deputy editor for opinion at U.S. News & World Report. He is also author of White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters (Simon & Schuster, 2008). A veteran Washington reporter, Schlesinger previously worked in the Boston Globe's D.C. bureau and was political editor of The Hill newspaper ...[more]