Early Life
Noonan was born in Brooklyn, New York. She is a graduate of Rutherford High School in Rutherford, New Jersey, and Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Noonan worked as the daily CBS Radio commentary writer for anchorman Dan Rather at CBS News, whom she once called "the best boss I ever had." From 1975 through 1977 she worked the overnight shift as a newswriter at WEEI Radio in Boston, where she was later Editorial and Public Affairs Director.
In 1978 and 1979 she was an adjunct professor of journalism at New York University.
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