| Margery Eagan | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1954 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | radio host, newspaper columnist |
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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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]
Eagan attended Smith College her freshman year, then transferred to Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, majoring in American Studies.[1]
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]
After graduation from Stanford, 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]
In 1981, Eagan was hired as a general assignment reporter at the Boston Herald, 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]
Eagan also currently co-hosts a morning talk radio show with Jim Braude on Boston's FM 96.9 WTKK.[4]
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]