Kyrie O'Connor (born November 24, 1954) is a writer and editor.

Biography

Born in

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on November 24, 1954, she graduated ''cum'' ''laude'' from

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in 1976. She is the sister of Candace O'Connor. She worked for 14 years at the ''

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'', 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 ''

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'', 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, one of the ''Chronicle''s first

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s. , she remains deputy managing editor of that newspaper and a frequent panelist on the

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show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!. O'Connor was named interim editor of the ''

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'' on September 20, 2011, replacing Robert Rivard.

References

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