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Margery Eagan (born June 13, 1954) is a
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host and a frequent guest on
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,
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, and the
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radio show. For many years she was a columnist for the ''
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''. 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
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, and has an older sister, Elizabeth. Eagan was raised
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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
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her freshman year, then transferred to
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in
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, majoring in
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.


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 ''
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'' and ''
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''. At 24, she was hired as a full-time feature writer at the ''
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'' in
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. 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 ''
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'', and was given a column in 1984. She served a "refining stint" as a senior writer at ''
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'', and returned to her column at the ''Herald'', where she wrote regularly until July 2014. She has received two nominations for
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in the category of Outstanding Newspaper Columnist. From 2014 to 2016, Eagan wrote a column at the
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's website about the Catholic Church, Crux, on
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and devotion to
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. After the Globe shuttered the site, Crux began operating independently under editor John Allen with financial support from the
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, but parted ways with Eagan.


Talk radio

Eagan also co-hosted the Jim & Margery Show with
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on
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's FM 96.9
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. The show ended when that station flipped to an urban contemporary format on January 2, 2013. The team is now broadcasting on weekdays a
Boston Public Radio
on
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, 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
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's
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to discuss the
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, and appeared a year later to comment on how the
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was affecting newspaper circulation. That same month, she appeared on
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to discuss aspects of the Elizabeth Smart case. In 2007, Eagan appeared on CNN's
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with
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to discuss her columns regarding the physical appearance of
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and the fashion sense of the wives of Republican Presidential candidates. Eagan is also a frequent presence on local Boston area television, notably WGBH's ''
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'', 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 ''
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'' reporter and editor Peter Mancusi, having two daughters and one son. They are currently divorced.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Eagan, Margery 1954 births Living people American columnists American women columnists American talk radio hosts American women radio hosts American people of Irish descent People from Fall River, Massachusetts Radio personalities from Boston Smith College alumni Stanford University alumni B.M.C. Durfee High School alumni 21st-century American women