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Linda Gradstein is the Israel bureau chief for The Media Line news agency.[1] Gradstein was theIsrael correspondent forNPR News from 1990[2] until 2009. As a freelance reporter she has reported forPRI'sThe World[3] and AOL News[4] and other venues such asSlate.[5] Gradstein is a member of the team that received the Overseas Press Club award for her coverage of the assassination of Israeli Prime MinisterYitzhak Rabin and the team that received Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism for her coverage of thePersian Gulf War.[2] Linda spent 1998-9 as a Knight Journalism Fellow atStanford University.
Gradstein has covered important events in Israel and theWest Bank andGaza Strip including the intifada, the mass immigration of Soviet immigrants to Israel, the return of Palestinian leaderYasser 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 fromGeorgetown University in 1985 and a master's degree in Arab Studies. She spent a year as aRotary Fellow at theAmerican University in Cairo. She speaks bothHebrew andArabic.