Margery Eagan
{{Infobox person
| name = Margery Eagan
| image = Margeryeagan.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Margery Eagan in 2010
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1954|6|13}}
| birth_place = Fall River, Massachusetts
| death_date =
| death_place =
| nationality = American
| other_names =
| known_for = newspaper columnist for the Boston Herald
| occupation = Radio host, Newspaper columnist
| alma_mater = Stanford University
}}
Margery Eagan (born June 13, 1954) is a talk radio host and a frequent guest on CNN, ABC, Fox News, and the Imus in the Morning radio show. For many years she was a columnist for the Boston Herald.{{cite news
| last =O'Brien
| first =Greg
| title =Margery Eagan, of the Boston Herald and Talk Radio: Experience, Energy, Passion, Wit Mark Her Journalism
| publisher =Boston Irish Reporter
| date =2007-07-08
| pages =4
| url = http://www.bostonirish.com/WEBBIR707.pdf
| accessdate = 2007-10-29 }} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}} Subjects of her commentaries include gender/women's issues, Catholicism, and politics.
Early life and education
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 in Fall River.
Eagan attended Smith College her freshman year, then transferred to Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, majoring in American Studies.
Early career
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 New Bedford a year later to become a columnist at the Standard-Times.
Boston media career
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 wrote regularly until July 2014. She has received two nominations for GLAAD Media Awards in the category of Outstanding Newspaper Columnist.{{cite news
|last=Gans
|first=Andrew
|title=14th Annual GLAAD Media Award Winners
|publisher=Playbill
|date=2003-04-08
|url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/78866.html
|accessdate=2007-11-01
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|archivedate=2007-11-03
|title=Nominees for the 17th Annual GLAAD Media Awards
|publisher=GLAAD
|date=2006-01-23
|url=http://www.glaad.org/publications/resource_doc_detail.php?id=3855
|accessdate=2007-11-01
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071014060404/http://glaad.org/publications/resource_doc_detail.php?id=3855
|archivedate=2007-10-14
|url-status=dead
}}
From 2014 to 2016, Eagan wrote a column at the Boston Globe's website about the Catholic Church, Crux, on spirituality and devotion to God.{{cite news|last1=Goldstein|first1=Meredith|last2=Shanahan|first2=Mark|title=Margery Eagan leaves the Boston Herald, joins Crux|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/names/2014/07/30/margery-eagan-leaves-boston-herald-joins-crux/nI1cP83YBgOVs9xFhhqwGI/story.html|accessdate=31 July 2014|publisher=The Boston Globe|date=30 July 2014}} After the Globe shuttered the site, Crux began operating independently under editor John Allen with financial support from the Knights of Columbus, but parted ways with Eagan.{{cite news|title=Globe's Catholic site Crux rescued by Knights of Columbus|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2016/03/15/globe-s-catholic-site-rescued-by-knights-of.html|publisher=Boston Business Journal|date=2016-03-15|accessdate=2017-03-15}}
Talk radio
File:Jim Braude and Margery Eagan.jpg and Margery Eagan at a live radio broadcast in Brookline, Massachusetts, May 7, 2010]]
Eagan also co-hosted the Jim & Margery Show with Jim Braude on Boston's FM 96.9 WTKK. The show ended when that station flipped to an urban contemporary format on January 2, 2013. The team is now broadcasting on weekdays as [http://wgbhnews.org/programs/boston-public-radio Boston Public Radio] on WGBH Radio, a Boston NPR station.
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,{{cite news
| title =CNN Newsnight
| publisher =CNN
| date =2002-04-10
| work =transcript
| url =http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0204/10/asb.00.html
| accessdate = 2007-10-31 }}{{cite news
| title =CNN Newsnight
| publisher =CNN
| date =2002-04-12
| work =transcript
| url =http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0204/12/asb.00.html
| accessdate = 2007-10-31 }}{{cite news
| title =CNN Newsnight
| publisher =CNN
| work =transcript
| date =2002-04-24
| url =http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0204/24/asb.00.html
| accessdate = 2007-10-29 }} and appeared a year later to comment on how the Iraq War was affecting newspaper circulation.{{cite news
| title =CNN Newsnight
| publisher =CNN
| work =transcript
| date =2003-03-25
| url =http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0303/25/asb.02.html
| accessdate = 2007-10-31 }} That same month, she appeared on The O'Reilly Factor to discuss aspects of the Elizabeth Smart case.{{cite news
| title =The O'Reilly Factor
| publisher =Fox News
| date =2003-03-18
| url =https://www.foxnews.com/story/guests-and-topics-march-18
| access-date = 2007-11-01 }} 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.{{cite news
| title =CNN Reliable Sources
| publisher =CNN
| work =transcript
| date =2007-06-10
| url =http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0706/10/rs.01.html
| accessdate = 2007-10-29 }}
Eagan is also a frequent presence on local Boston area television, notably WGBH's Greater Boston, on which she often appears as a panelist on that program's Friday evening "Beat the Press" edition, summarizing and critiquing media coverage of the prior week's news events
Personal life
Eagan was married to longtime Boston Globe reporter and editor Peter Mancusi, having two daughters and one son. They are currently divorced.
References
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External links
- {{C-SPAN|45056}}
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Category:American women columnists
Category:American talk radio hosts
Category:American women radio hosts
Category:American people of Irish descent
Category:People from Fall River, Massachusetts
Category:Radio personalities from Boston
Category:Stanford University alumni