About
![Picture of Shana Alexander](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Shana_Alexander%2C_RIT_NandE_Vol10Num6_1978_Oct19_Complete.jpg)
Shana Alexander (October 6, 1925 – June 23, 2005) was an American journalist. Although she became the first woman staff writer and columnist for Life magazine, she was best known for her participation in the "Point-Counterpoint" debate segments of 60 Minutes in the late 1970s with conservative James J. Kilpatrick.