Linda Gradstein

Linda Gradstein is a freelance reporter in Israel who regularly reports for PRI's The World[1] and AOL News[2] and who occasionally reports for other venues such as Slate.[3] Gradstein was the Israel correspondent for NPR News from 1990[4] until 2009. She is a member of the team that received the Overseas Press Club award for her coverage of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the team that received Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism for her coverage of the Persian Gulf War.[4] Linda spent 1998-9 as a Knight Journalist Fellow at Stanford University.

Gradstein has covered important events in Israel and the West Bank and Gaza Strip including the intifada, the mass immigration of Soviet immigrants to Israel, the return of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to Gaza, the rise of Hamas, the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, the Persian Gulf war, and two elections in Israel.

Gradstein earned a bachelor's degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University in 1985 and a master's degree in Arab Studies. She spent a year as a Rotary Fellow at the American University in Cairo. She speaks both Hebrew and Arabic.

References

  1. ↑ "The World: Articles tagged Linda Gradstein". Retrieved 2010-02-11.
  2. ↑ "AOL News: Linda Gradstein Contributor". Retrieved 2010-02-11.
  3. ↑ "Slate: Search of Gradstein". Retrieved 2010-05-04.
  4. 1 2 Frankel, Glenn (April 2007). "Linda Gradstein: NPR’s Voice from Jerusalem". Moment. Retrieved 2010-05-04. External link in |journal= (help)

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