Week 12, EOTO pt. 2

Shana Alexander

an American journalist

Shana Alexander was an American journalist best known for her time on the television show "60 Minutes". She was a former columnist for Life and Newsweek magazines, but joined "60 Minutes" in 1975 as a liberal voice of the show's debate segments

Alexander also went on to publish a handful of books and memoirs including a memoir about her childhood and upbringing.

Breaking history in 1951 as the first woman writer to be named on Life magazine's staff, Alexander was making headlines. She held her own regular column with Life for 5 years, called The Feminine Eye. Then, she became an editor of McCall's magazine, which was a position that had yet to be filled by a female in almost half a century.

After her time with "60 Minutes", Alexander became involved with crime writing which eluded to the exposure of sex roles and social classes. Alexander often wrote about women with luxurious lives with little traumas.

Shana Alexander is best known for her witty and intellectual conversations on "60 Minutes" but will always be remembered as a woman that broke barriers for the future of females in journalism.

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