Linda Douglass
Director of Communications for the White House Office of Health Reform
In office
May 2009 – April 2010
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byPosition established
Personal details
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseJohn R. Phillips
Children1
EducationUniversity of Southern California (BA)

Linda Douglass is an American political advisor, former government official, and former journalist who served as the head of communications for Bloomberg L.P., as well as a correspondent for ABC News, often reporting for World News Tonight. Douglass had previously served as a communications advisor in the Obama administration.

Education

Douglass earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from the University of Southern California.[1]

Career

Douglass had a long career as journalist with ABC News and CBS News and covered some of the major events of the 1990s and early 2000s.[2] She was awarded the National Press Foundation's Everett Dirksen Award for Distinguished Coverage of Congress in 1999.[3] She began her journalism career in 1973 with KNXT.

Douglass served as a senior strategist and spokeswoman for the Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign.[4] Following Obama's victory, Douglass was appointed spokeswoman for the presidential inauguration committee.[5] During President Barack Obama's first term, she was director of communications for the White House Office of Health Reform from 2009 to 2010.[6][7][8][9]

In June 2010, she was named vice president and Head of Corporate and Strategic communications at Atlantic Media,[10] and later became Senior Vice President of Global Communications.[11] In 2013, she moved to Italy when her husband, John Phillips, was named ambassador to Italy.[12] In 2019, she endorsed Pete Buttigieg in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries.[13]

In October 2022, Douglass joined the Council for Responsible Social Media project launched by Issue One to address the negative mental, civic, and public health impacts of social media in the United States co-chaired by former House Democratic Caucus Leader Dick Gephardt and former Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey.[14][15]

Personal life

Douglass is married to the former United States ambassador to Italy, John R. Phillips, and they have one daughter.[16][17]

References

  1. ^ "Linda Douglass, living 2015". www.douglashistory.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  2. ^ "Linda Douglass". ABC News. 11 November 2005.
  3. ^ "Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress - National Press Foundation".
  4. ^ Frederick, Don (May 21, 2008). "Linda Douglass, well-known journalist, becomes a partisan". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved September 13, 2013.
  5. ^ Seelye, Katharine (November 25, 2008). "Obama Places Stringent Limits on Inaugural Contributions". The New York Times. Retrieved September 13, 2013.
  6. ^ "Linda Douglass". The Washington Post. July 26, 2012. Archived from the original on September 25, 2012. Retrieved September 13, 2013.
  7. ^ Kurtz, Howard (April 8, 2010). "Linda Douglass leaving White House". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 11, 2010.
  8. ^ Allen, Mike. "Presented by Starbucks: Linda Douglass will wear two hats — Ebony's 'Power 150' — Halperin-Heilemann's HBO deal finally announced — Navy SEALs: 'The only easy day was yesterday'". POLITICO. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  9. ^ Allen, Mike. "Viral campaign: White House makes snap video featuring Linda Douglass to debunk 'scare' clip on Drudge -- Bill Clinton is in North Korea on Obama-approved mission to free two detained journalists". POLITICO. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  10. ^ Alex Alvarez (June 10, 2010). "Linda Douglass Returns To Atlantic Media". Retrieved September 13, 2013.
  11. ^ "Linda Douglass to Join Bloomberg Media as Global Head of Communications". Bloomberg L.P. 7 July 2015.
  12. ^ "New USA Ambassador to Italy Charms Italians with a Special Video". www.italymagazine.com. 12 September 2013.
  13. ^ Phillip, Abby (5 December 2019). "Pete Buttigieg scores endorsements from former Obama officials". CNN. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
  14. ^ Feiner, Lauren (October 12, 2022). "Facebook whistleblower, former defense and intel officials form group to fix social media". CNBC. Retrieved October 12, 2022.
  15. ^ "Council for Responsible Social Media – Issue One". issueone.org. Retrieved October 12, 2022.
  16. ^ Davis, Julie Hirschfeld (2014-07-14). "At Dinner Tables, a Restless Obama Finds an Intellectual Escape". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  17. ^ Sipher, Devan (2010-09-03). "Katie Phillips and Keith Byrd". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-09-30.

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