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Linda Lockhart

Analyst, Public Insight Network


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Linda is the Beacon's analyst for the Public Insight Network. The network, a product of Minnesota Public Radio and American Public Media, is a new journalism tool used to find out what people know and what they want to know. Using e-mail and the Internet, it helps Beacon editors and reporters quickly find and learn from people who have experience or knowledge on stories being covered. The Beacon also looks to participants for suggestions about what stories should be covered.

Linda has worked as a journalist for more than 20 years, as reporter, copy editor, make-up editor, night city editor, wire editor, Metro Section and editorial writer. She began and ended her work for daily newspapers at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In between, she worked at the Milwaukee Journal, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, the Wisconsin State Journal and The Capital Times. Linda has served on the Editorial Advisory Committee of The Lutheran, the magazine of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Linda is graduate of the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri, Columbia, and of the Editing Program for Minority Journalists. She has been a member and national secretary of the National Association of Black Journalists, and is a founding member and former president of the Greater St. Louis Association of Black Journalists. Linda is a native of St. Louis, and lives with her reporter husband in the St. Louis suburb of Kirkwood. They have two children, a dog and a cat.

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Floods and Kaskaskia

Drew Canning talks with island residents Courtney "Manny" Brown and Dorothy "Dot" Brown, who recall what life used to be like on Kaskaskia Island. To read more about the island and see a larger version of the slideshow, click here .(Photos by Rachel Heidenry | Beacon intern)

Voices

Letters from Mongolia: Getting there
Posted 2:20 pm Wed., 09.01.10
In the News
Planning for a trip to Mongolia, even if you already in Dalian, China, must be undertaken with care -- particularly when Woodson Gannaway plans to spend no more than $550.
Glenn Beck's buffet-style civil rights
Posted 9:42 am Tue., 08.31.10
Beacon Columnists
Kira Hudson Banks asks whether the rally was meant to "reclaim" civil rights or dismiss them?
Two ways to look at military issues
Posted 10:57 pm Sun., 08.29.10
In the News
Rep. Todd Akin, Republican incumbent in the 2nd district, discusses specific areas, such as nuclear policy, terrorism and the way in Afghanistan, in which he disagrees with the administration's policies .

Arthur Lieber, Democratic candidate in the 2nd district, focuses on how decisions are made and seven principles, such as no will be deployed without equipment that gives them maximum safety .

Beacon Roundtable

Roundtable for Aug. 26 - Elected school board, stem cell research, Russ and Robin Carnahan
Posted 12:50 pm Thu., 08.26.10
In this week's Beacon Roundtable, Dick Weiss, Robert Joiner, Dale Singer and Jo Mannies sit down to talk about a setback for stem-cell research, the elected school board of St.…
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Beacon Blog

In a global village, what constitutes local news?
Posted 1:40 pm Wed., 09.01.10
Editor Margaret Wolf Freivogel discusses why combat troups in Iraq and a Muslim cultural center in Manhattan are news that matters for a regional news source.
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The Lens

'Avatar' overload is just part of the summer movie slog
Posted 12:57 pm Wed., 09.01.10
The film studios have to be fatigued from the ups and downs of another cycle of Summer! Movie! Blockbusters! Certainly, filmgoers have had enough of less-than super heroes.

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