Linda Jue

Linda Jue is director of New Voices in Independent Journalism, a national initiative dedicated to building a diverse pool of independent, investigative journalists and public intellectuals who can bring the emerging perspectives of the country's changing demographics, as well as the next generation of youth, to public interest reporting. She is the former associate director and founding staff member of the Independent Press Association, where she directed several national journalism programs. Before going to the IPA, she directed San Francisco State University's Community Press Consortium, a professional training program for journalists working in the community and ethnic press. Linda is a former associate of the Center for Investigative Reporting and a former editor at San Francisco Focus magazine. She also worked as the Northern California correspondent for C-SPAN. Her work has appeared in San Francisco Focus, Los Angeles Times Syndicate, Toronto Globe and Mail, GEO, MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, PBS' Frontline and other outlets. She has won two Thomas Moore Storke International Journalism Awards and a Maggie for excellence in feature writing. Linda is president of the Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California Chapter. She was a founding member, board director and president of Media Alliance until 1996.