Eileen Shanahan, 77, Former Times Reporter - November 3, 2001

In addition to her work at The Times, from 1962 to 1977, Ms. Shanahan was an assistant managing editor at The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and The Washington Star, and she was a reporter for The United Press, the Research Institute of America and The Journal of Commerce.


Shanahan left The NY Times to join the Carter Administration as the top public affairs officer for the old Department of Health, Education and Welfare (now Health and Human Services). Two years later, The Washington Star hired her as an assistant managing editor with supervision over business coverage and special projects for all the paper's sections. After Time Inc. folded the Star in 1981, Ms. Shanahan eventually wound up doing something entirely new: in 1987, she became the founding editor of Governing, the first national magazine devoted exclusively to coverage of state and local government.

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Books:

• Government Regulation: What Kind of Reform? A Round Table Held on 11 September 1975 and Sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research and the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace by American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research and Hubert H. Humphrey and Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace and Eileen Shanahan Hardcover, AEI, ISBN 0844720704 (0-8447-2070-4)
• Indexing and Inflation: An AEI Round Table Held on 17 July 1974 at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington, D.C. by Milton Friedman and American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research and Eileen Shanahan Hardcover, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, ISBN 0844720496 (0-8447-2049-6)

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