Linda Quigley
Linda Quigley is an award-winning journalist who spent 30
years as a newspaper reporter and editor. She began her career in
newspaper journalism in her hometown, Florence, Ala., in 1970, and
finished it in 2000, after working 14 years as a features writer at
The Tennessean in Nashville.
She has worked as editorial director of a group of small daily newspapers in the Southeast and Midwest, as executive editor of three-day-a-week papers in Alabama and Florida, and at positions ranging from city editor to regional editor at other dailies. At Penn State University, where she earned a master's degree in journalism, she held a graduate teaching assistantship and was tapped for Kappa Tau Alpha, national journalism honorary society. She later returned to Penn State for two years as adviser to the Collegian, Penn State's student daily newspaper, and during that time continued to write for newspapers as a freelancer.
In the fall of 2000, she joined the journalism faculty at Belmont where she serves as adviser to the student newspaper, the Belmont Vision, and teaches classes in writing and editing.
