Margery Eagan

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Margery Eagan (born 1954) is a long time columnist with the Boston Herald, a talk radio host, and a frequent guest on CNN, ABC, Fox News, and the Imus in the Morning radio show.[1] Subjects of her commentaries include gender/women's issues, Catholicism, and politics.

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Eagan, a third generation Irish-American, was born to Daniel Eagan and Margaret Manning of Fall River, Massachusetts, and has an older sister, Elizabeth. Eagan was raised Roman Catholic, but attended public school. She began writing stories as a child, and was encouraged by her English teacher at Durfee High School.[1]

[edit] Education

Eagan attended Smith College her freshman year, then transferred to Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, majoring in American Studies.[1]

[edit] Marriage and children

Eagan was married to long time Boston Globe reporter and editor Peter Mancusi, having two daughters and one son. Their marriage ended in divorce.[1]

[edit] Early career

After graduation from Stanford, with no formal journalism training or experience, Eagan took a job at the Fall River Herald News at a compensation rate of $15 per story. She was soon also freelancing for the New Bedford Standard-Times and The Boston Globe. At 24, she was hired as a full time feature writer at the Burlington Free Press in Vermont. She returned to Fall River a year later to become a columnist at the Standard-Times.[1]

[edit] Boston Herald

In 1981, Eagan was hired as a general assignment reporter at the Boston Herald American, and was given a column in 1984. She served a "refining stint" as a senior writer at Boston Magazine, and returned to her column at the Herald, where she continues currently.[1] She has received two nominations for GLAAD Media Awards in the category of Outstanding Newspaper Columnist.[2][3]

[edit] Talk radio

Eagan also currently co-hosts an afternoon talk radio show with Jim Braude on Boston's FM 96.9 WTKK.[4]

[edit] Television

Eagan's columns and radio commentary occasionally draw the attention of national media. In 2002, she made a series of appearances on CNN's NewsNight with Aaron Brown to discuss the Roman Catholic sex abuse cases,[5][6][7] and appeared a year later to comment on how the Iraq War was affecting newspaper circulation.[8] That same month, she appeared on The O'Reilly Factor to discuss aspects of the Elizabeth Smart case.[9] In 2007, Eagan appeared on CNN's Reliable Sources with Howard Kurtz to discuss her columns regarding the physical appearance of Hillary Clinton and the fashion sense of the wives of Republican Presidential candidates.[10]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d e f O'Brien, Greg. "Margery Eagan, of the Boston Herald and Talk Radio: Experience, Energy, Passion, Wit Mark Her Journalism" (PDF), Boston Irish Reporter, 2007-07-08, pp. 4. Retrieved on 2007-10-29. 
  2. ^ Gans, Andrew. "14th Annual GLAAD Media Award Winners", Playbill, 2003-04-08. Retrieved on 2007-11-01. 
  3. ^ "Nominees for the 17th Annual GLAAD Media Awards", GLAAD, 2006-01-23. Retrieved on 2007-11-01. 
  4. ^ HOME
  5. ^ "CNN Newsnight", transcript, CNN, 2002-04-10. Retrieved on 2007-10-31. 
  6. ^ "CNN Newsnight", transcript, CNN, 2002-04-12. Retrieved on 2007-10-31. 
  7. ^ "CNN Newsnight", transcript, CNN, 2002-04-24. Retrieved on 2007-10-29. 
  8. ^ "CNN Newsnight", transcript, CNN, 2003-03-25. Retrieved on 2007-10-31. 
  9. ^ "The O'Reilly Factor", Fox News, 2003-03-18. Retrieved on 2007-11-01. 
  10. ^ "CNN Reliable Sources", transcript, CNN, 2007-06-10. Retrieved on 2007-10-29. 
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