Former Obama Healthcare Comms. Director Linda Douglass: Reporters and Sources More "Wary Of Each Other" in Digital News World

Linda Douglass, who previously worked as the communications director for the Office of Health Reform at the White House and has also worked as Barack Obama’s traveling press secretary, recently joined The Atlantic as vice president of strategic communications.

Yesterday she spoke was a guest on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” to talk about the move and going back and forth from journalism to PR. Douglass was also previously an ABC News correspondent. In her new position, she will also be involved with newsroom activities, which Kurtz asked about.

From the transcript:

KURTZ: But if you’re helping to shape the newsroom, could anybody be skeptical and say you’re bringing some kind of pro-Obama agenda?

DOUGLASS: What I’m doing is bringing decades of experience in journalism and in communications to try to rebuild this operation and see where people get their news, who they believe, who they trust —

KURTZ: You’re so experienced, you just deflected...