Kyrie O'Connor
{{Short description|American writer and editor (born 1954)}}
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Kyrie O'Connor (born November 24, 1954) is a writer and editor.
Biography
Born in Rochester, New York on November 24, 1954, she graduated cum laude from Wesleyan University in 1976. She is the sister of Candace O'Connor.{{Citation needed|date=January 2024}}
She worked for 14 years at the Hartford Courant, rising to the rank of assistant managing editor for features. O'Connor led the creation and/or redesign of many of that newspaper's feature sections. She left in 2003 for the Houston Chronicle, where she became deputy managing editor/features. At the Chronicle, she wrote a daily memo to her staff about trends in popular culture and discoveries she made about life in Houston, eventually turning the memo into MeMo,{{Cite web |date=2009-06-01 |title=MeMo |url=http://blogs.chron.com/memo/ |access-date=2024-01-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090601022327/http://blogs.chron.com/memo/ |archive-date=June 1, 2009 }} one of the Chronicle{{'}}s first blogs. {{As of|2007}}, she remains deputy managing editor of that newspaper{{Cite web |last=O'CONNOR |first=KYRIE |date=2004-04-06 |title=MeMo: Frequently Asked Questions |url=https://www.chron.com/news/article/MeMo-Frequently-Asked-Questions-1520974.php |access-date=2024-01-27 |website=Chron |language=en}} and a frequent panelist on the National Public Radio show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!.{{Cite web |date=2008-02-02 |title=NPR : Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! |website=NPR |url=https://www.npr.org/programs/waitwait/aboutpanelists.html |access-date=2024-01-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080202133007/https://www.npr.org/programs/waitwait/aboutpanelists.html |archive-date=February 2, 2008 }}
O'Connor was named interim editor of the San Antonio Express-News on September 20, 2011, replacing Robert Rivard.{{Cite web|url=http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Express-News-Editor-Rivard-resigns-2180684.php|title = Rivard ends 14-year run as E-N editor| work=San Antonio Express-News |date = September 21, 2011}}
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