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'''Linda Douglass''' is the Head of Communications for Bloomberg in Washington DC. Prior to that, she was the Global Head of Communications for Bloomberg Media in New York [https://www.bloomberg.com/company/announcements/linda-douglass-join-bloomberg-media-global-head-communications/]. During President Barack Obama's first term, she was director of communications for the [[White House Office of Health Reform]] in the [[Presidency of Barack Obama|Obama Administration]] (May 2009<ref name="WPWRG">{{cite news| url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/linda-douglass/gIQALV4u6O_topic.html| title = Linda Douglass| publisher = [[The Washington Post]]| accessdate=September 13, 2013| date=July 26, 2012}}</ref>–April 2010).<ref>{{cite news|url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/04/linda-douglass-leaving-white-h.html|title=Linda Douglass leaving White House|publisher=[[The Washington Post]]|authorlink=Howard Kurtz|first=Howard|last=Kurtz|date=April 8, 2010|accessdate=April 11, 2010}}</ref> In June 2010, she was named Vice President, Head of Corporate and Strategic communications at [[Atlantic Media]]
Douglass was first associated with [[Barack Obama]] as a senior strategist and spokeswoman of his [[Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008|presidential campaign]]. She joined his campaign on May 21, 2008.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/05/linda-douglass.html|title=Linda Douglass, well-known journalist, becomes a partisan|date=May 21, 2008|first=Don|last=Frederick|publisher=[[Los Angeles Times]]| accessdate=September 13, 2013}}</ref> Following Obama's victory in the [[United States presidential election, 2008|November 2008 presidential elections]], Douglass was appointed spokeswoman
Douglass had a long career as journalist with [[ABC News]] and [[CBS News]] and covered some of the major events of the 1990's and early 2000's. [http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=126771]. She was awarded the National Press Foundation's Everett Dirksen Award for Distinguished Coverage of Congress in 1999 [https://nationalpress.org/awards/everett-mckinley-dirksen-awards-for-distinguished-reporting-of-congress/]. She
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