Linda Douglass Hires On With CBS in Washington

Linda Douglass, the former political editor for KNBC-TV Channel 4 in Los Angeles, has been hired by CBS News as a reporter in its Washington bureau, network officials said Monday.

Douglass, highly regarded for her work in covering both the Los Angeles riots and the presidential campaign for KNBC last year, will be covering politics and general-assignment stories for the “CBS Evening News With Dan Rather” and other CBS News broadcasts.

She will begin her new job Monday.

“During the recent election, we found a real interest among viewers--and voters--in government accountability,” said Erik Sorenson, executive producer of the “CBS Evening News.” “Linda is a terrific political reporter, and she’ll be looking behind the political curtain in Washington for where the pork-barrel and the government waste might be.”

Douglass, who had been KNBC’s political editor since 1985, left the station in November. She said at the time that she was moving with her family to Washington because her husband’s law practice increasingly required him to work there for extended periods.

“This is a very exciting professional move for me, to be covering politics on the national stage and to be working with political reporters at CBS News whom I’ve known and respected for years,” she said.

Douglass has worked in broadcast journalism for 18 years. She first worked for CBS News in 1981, as a Los Angeles-based correspondent. Prior to joining KNBC, Douglass was the political editor at KCBS-TV Channel 2, the CBS owned-station in Los Angeles.