Career
Lyons wrote articles and columns for the Boston Globe starting in the 1920s. He also wrote for the Christian Science Monitor, and published memoirs and other books The Lyons Award is named after him and "honors displays of conscience and integrity by individuals, groups or institutions in communications." The Lyons Foundation was formed in 2005 to preserve his television and radio broadcasts (for WGBH Boston) and also to compile his unpublished memoirs and various articles for publication.
In the 1920s he wrote a column for the Globe about conversations with his then-young son (Richard Lyons, who became a reporter for the Washington Post).