Linda Austin: Reynolds Center presenter

By Reynolds Staff on May 10, 2012 in Reynolds Center presenters, TrendingTopic

Linda Austin

A former business editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer, Linda Austin became executive director of the Reynolds Center in 2009. She spent the previous decade as a top newsroom leader, serving as the editor of the Lexington Herald-Leader in Kentucky; executive editor of The News-Sentinel in Fort Wayne, Ind.; and managing editor of the News & Record in Greensboro, N.C.

Before that, she held a variety of positions in her 12 years at The Inquirer, including graphics editor, assistant managing editor/finance and editor/publisher of the monthly PhillyTech magazine. Her other newspaper credits include the Dallas Times Herald in Texas, The Straits Times of Singapore (as a Luce Scholar) and the Winston-Salem Journal in North Carolina.

She graduated with highest honors from the University of North Carolina School of Journalism. She was a 2009 fellow in the Punch Sulzberger Executive News Media Leadership Program at Columbia University’s Journalism School and is a master’s student in educational technology at Arizona State University.

Email Austin or follow her on Twitter @LindaAustin_.

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The Reynolds Center, created through generous grants from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation of Las Vegas and operated by ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, is dedicated to improving the quality of business and economics coverage through training programs for business reporters and editors.