George Shannon (journalist)

George Washington Shannon (February 20, 1914 – April 25, 1998) was a conservative journalist from, principally, Shreveport, Louisiana.

Shannon was born in El Dorado, the seat of government of Union County in southern Arkansas. Shannon had four siblings, Inez S. Cobb (1907-1993) of Refugio in southeastern Texas, Louise Shannon Thorne Vaughn (1909-2000) of North Little Rock, Arkansas, Henry H. Shannon, Jr., of El Dorado, and Eula Pearl Shannon Gilcrease (1917-2013), who was born in El Dorado and lived after 1936 in Shreveport with her husband, Duncan M. Gilcrease (1914-1974).

Shannon launched his career as a reporter and sports editor at The El Dorado News-Times, one of the Clyde E. Palmer newspapers, since known as WEHCO Media, Inc. In 1935, he joined the staff of The Shreveport Times, a morning daily, and became assistant city editor. In 1938, he was hired by The Alexandria Daily Town Talk, then an afternoon daily and Sunday morning publication in Alexandria. Now a morning paper, The Town Talk is still the largest newspaper in Central Louisiana. The veteran Alexandria managing editor, Adras LaBorde, an inductee of the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame, came to The Town Talk after Shannon had already left.