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Kyrie O'Connor

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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]

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,[1] one of the Chronicle's first blogs. As of 2007, she remains deputy managing editor of that newspaper[2] and a frequent panelist on the National Public Radio show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!.[3]

O'Connor was named interim editor of the San Antonio Express-News on September 20, 2011, replacing Robert Rivard.[4]

References

  1. ^ "MeMo". June 1, 2009. Archived from the original on June 1, 2009. Retrieved January 27, 2024.
  2. ^ O'CONNOR, KYRIE (April 6, 2004). "MeMo: Frequently Asked Questions". Chron. Retrieved January 27, 2024.
  3. ^ "NPR : Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!". NPR. February 2, 2008. Archived from the original on February 2, 2008. Retrieved January 27, 2024.
  4. ^ "Rivard ends 14-year run as E-N editor". September 21, 2011.