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Welcome to another edition of the WILL-AM Media Matters email update! 


THIS WEEK'S GUEST 

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This week's guest on Media Matters is Linda Foley, president of the Newspaper Guild, Communications Workers of America. Foley grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, went to Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism, and worked summers on community newspapers. After graduating, she worked the copy desk at the Lexington, Kentucky, Herald-Leader, a Knight Ridder newspaper, then became a reporter, feature writer, and makeup editor. By age 24 she was president of Local 229 of the Newspaper Guild. In 1984, she went to work full time for the guild in Washington, D.C., in the collective bargaining department. She was elected secretary-treasurer of the Guild in 1993 and Guild President in 1995.


UPCOMING GUESTS 

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In the following weeks we will feature Al Franken, Ben Scott and Molly Ivins. 

If you have a suggestion for a guest you'd like to see on the show,let us know: email producer Victor Pickard at vpickard at uiuc.edu 

   
LAST WEEK'S GUEST 

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Last week's guest on Media Matters was Robert Pollin. Robert Pollin is Professor of Economics and founding Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute(PERI) at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst <http://www.umass.edu/peri/>. Pollin discussed his latest book, "Contours of Descent: U.S. Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global Austerity." 


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NUTS and BOLTS 

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