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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]]. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/revolving_door/linda_douglass_returns_to_atlantic_media_164337.asp|title=Linda Douglass Returns To Atlantic Media|author=Alex Alvarez|date=June 10, 2010| accessdate=September 13, 2013}}</ref> She wasand later namedbecame Senior Vice President of Global Communications. She left that position in June,In 2013 to do independent consulting.<ref>http://www.adweek.com/fishbowldc/linda-douglass-out-atlantic-emily-lenzner-in/109081?red=as</ref> Later that year, she moved to Italy when her husband, John Phillips, was named ambassador to Italy.<ref>http://www.italymagazine.com/news/new-usa-ambassador-italy-charms-italians-special-video</ref>

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 offor the [[United States presidential inauguration|presidential inauguration]] committee.<ref>{{cite news|publisher=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/26/us/politics/26inaug.html?ref=politics|date=November 25, 2008|title=Obama Places Stringent Limits on Inaugural Contributions|first=Katharine|last=Seelye| accessdate=September 13, 2013}}</ref>

and began her journalism career in 1973 with [[KCBS-TV]], the [[Los Angeles]] [[Network affiliate|affiliate]] of [[CBS]].