Sheila Liaugminas

Sheila Liaugminas is an Emmy award-winning Chicago-based journalist in print and broadcast media. Her writing and broadcasting covers matters of faith, culture, politics and the media. She reported for Time magazine in its Midwest Bureau for over 20 years. At Chicago’s NBC-owned station, she co-hosted the TV magazine program YOU. Sheila formerly hosted three radio programs, The Right Questions; and Issues & Answers for Relevant Radio, and America’s Lifeline on the Salem network. Besides her work on MercatorNet, Sheila has published in the Chicago Tribune, Crain’s Chicago Business, Crisis Magazine, Voices Magazine, National Catholic Register, Catholic New World, the Center for Morality in Public Life blog Ethika Politika and the National Review Online. She currently hosts the daily radio program A Closer Look on Relevant Radio and serves as the Network News Director.

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New technology wins, quickly

Sheila Liaugminas | 19 Jan 2012

It started out to be about copyright infringement. But it ended quickly, when the old guard caved to the pervasive pressure from the new.

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If you need information online Wednesday...

Sheila Liaugminas | 18 Jan 2012

…be prepared to work harder for it. Some of the top search sites are going dark for the day.

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Martin Luther King, in his own words

Sheila Liaugminas | 17 Jan 2012

For many years and political cycles, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s words and works have been selectively remembered according to which passages and sound clips work for the advantage of a political agenda.

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Pope says 'we're all in this together'

Sheila Liaugminas | 13 Jan 2012

Though paraphrased and abbreviated, that message isn’t as simple as it sounds.

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'The most important religious freedom test in 20 years'

Sheila Liaugminas | 12 Jan 2012

The Supreme Court of the United States has been asked to hear some unusually pivotal cases in recent time, even for that increasingly political body.

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Mitt, the unpopular winner

Sheila Liaugminas | 11 Jan 2012

For many months, an odd trend has held sway in the GOP and the media reporting on the presidential campaigns as they shaped up: calling the weekly Mitt Romney polling strength and the Not-Mitt Candidate of the moment who shared or even overtook the lead in those polls. That Not-Romney Candidate has rotated through the ranks over time, but the position has remained important to a major faction of the GOP. Even on election night in the New Hampshire primary.

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Social moral issues in presidential politics

Sheila Liaugminas | 10 Jan 2012

The media don’t quite know how to handle this.

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Giffords and Tucson one year later

Sheila Liaugminas | 9 Jan 2012

A picture is worth a thousand words. Look at this one of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband on the one-year anniversary of the Tucson shooting.

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