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Journalist, Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Director of Boston University Washington Center and a Boston University professor of journalism.

Linda Killian is a Washington journalist and a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She is the director of the Boston University Washington Center and a Boston University professor of journalism.

She is a columnist for Politico.com and U.S. News & World Report.com and 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 has also 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" magazines.

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

She is the former 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 and for several major daily newspapers including “The Oregonian” and at United Press International.

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