Michael Linder is an American television producer and broadcast journalist based in

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, currently an investigative reporter for KABC-AM and an executive producer for Natural 9 Entertainment in Burbank. He is a contributor to BBC Radio 5 Live and

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. Linder created and executive produced '' America's Most Wanted'' in 1988, casting host John Walsh and launching the first hit series on the nascent

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network. He left the program in 1990. In 1990, Linder created and executive produced ''The Jesse Jackson Show'' leading a crew and host Jackson to interview

Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein ( ; ar, صدام حسين, Ṣaddām Ḥusayn; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolutio ...

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as troops massed for the

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and negotiating the release of 227 hostages held by Hussein in Kuwait City and Baghdad, including the staff of the U.S. embassy in Kuwait City. In 1995-6 Linder created and produced
Berserkistan
with photojournalist Jim Bartlett, credited as the first Internet site to cover a war (Bosnia) on location."Wired", April 1996, "World Wide War" p. 36. From 2004 through 2009, Linder served as a

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for

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. He has won numerous broadcast journalism honors including a for a series on street gang impacts on children and an RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award for coverage of water issues in California's

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Home page

Michael Linder at KABC

Michael Jackson trial blog
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