Shaun O'Leary Higgins

Background

Higgins, Shaun O'Leary was born on March 22, 1948 in Princeton, Indiana, United States. Son of John Frank and Laura Dorothea (Thompson) Higgins.

Education

Bachelor in Communications, DePauw University, 1971.

Career

Reporter, city editor, Lu-Mar Newspapers, Inc., Bloomington, Indiana, 1967-1969; managing editor, The Times, Brazil, Indiana, 1969-1972; congressional candidate, 7th District Indiana Democratic, Brazil, 1972; consultant, Keep's Creek Associations, Indianapolis, 1972-1973; wire editor, Times & Times World, Roanoke, Virginia, 1973-1974; freelance writer, editor, self-employed, New York City, 1974-1975; news editor, state bureau chief, Lee Newspapers, Inc., Billings, Helena, Montana, 1975-1979; assistant managing editor, Cowles Public Company, Spokane, Washington, 1973-1983; marketing director, Cowles Public Company, Spokane, 1983-1988; director marketing and sales, Cowles Public Company, Spokane, since 1988; president, chief operating officer, New Media Ventures, Inc., Cowles Public Company, Spokane, since 1993; chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Print Marketing Concepts, Inc., Houston, since 1996. Consultant in field; instructor in field. Owner The Oxalis Group, Spokane, since 1979.

Achievements

• Shaun O"Leary Higgins has been listed as a noteworthy Media executive by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Movies For Business

    (Movies For Business: Big-Screen Lessons in Corporate Visi...)

  • Press Gallery: The Newspaper in Modern and Postmodern Art

    (Press Gallery: The Newspaper in Modern and Postmodern Art...)

  • The Newspaper in Art

    (Not art in newspapers, but how newspapers have been used ...)

  • Movies for Leaders: Management Lessons from Four All-Time Great Films (Management Goes to the Movies)

    (A VCR, a great movie, a tub of popcorn and a Management G...)

  • Measuring Spokane: A Numerical Look at a City and Its Region

    (Book by Higgins, Shaun, Higgins, Shaun O'L.)

  • Press Gallery: The Newspaper in Modern and Postmodern Art by Shaun O'L. Higgins, Colleen Striegel (2005) Hardcover

    (First Edition)

  • Leadership Secrets of Elizabeth I

Membership

Board directors, trustee Washington Commission for Humanities, Seattle, 1988-1993, United Way of Spokane County, 1988-1991. Trustee Northwest Museum Arts and Culture, since 2001. Member public relations advisory board DePauw University, since 1996.

Advisory board Pulliam Center Contemporary Media. Board directors Spokane Regional Convention and Visitors Bureau, 1991-1994, Spokane Symphony Orchestra, 1991-1996, Community Development Board, Spokane, 1986-1988. Trustee, chairman Spokane Area Economic Development Council, 1983-1991, chair, 1990.

Chairman Festival of Four Cultures, 1989. Member Spokane Advertising Federation (president 1988-1989, Lifetime Achievement award 2000), Direct Marketing Association, Public Relations Society of America, Society Professional Journalists, American Statistical Association, American Mathematics Association, National Association Business Economists, International Newspaper Marketing Association (trustee, international president since 1993, Silver Shovel award 1996), Newspaper Association American (retail council, business development committee, chair national political task force), World Association Newspapers (executive, director), Chautauqua Society Eastern Washington University, Voltaire Society of America (founding). Vachel Lindsay Association, Spokane Athletic Club.

Interests

• Avocations: book collecting, reading, traveling.

Connections

Married Ann Glendening, November 23, 1975. Children: Flannery Maeve, Ian Dashiell.

Father:

John Frank Higgins

Mother:

Laura Dorothea (Thompson) Higgins

Spouse:

Ann Glendening

child:

Ian Dashiell Higgins

child:

Flannery Maeve Higgins