Barry Glenn Email & Phone Number

Orlando, Florida Area

Wrote feelance articles on travel, arts, business and community for magazines, including Delta Sky, Travel & Leisure, Texture and Winter Park.

• Directed content for daily Good Living section, guiding nine reporters in writing people profiles, as well as features in the areas of travel, outdoor/nature activities, health and fitness, relationships, fashion.
• Increased readership of the Good Living section through a daily mix of narrative profiles, light and serious trend pieces and consumer-friendly stories.
• Worked with numerous organizations to gain placement of stories and profiles related to their efforts.
• Worked with multimedia department in creating online presentations for print stories in my section.
• Mobilized features department for breaking news and follow-up stories to hurricanes, 9/11 tragedy, explosion of shuttle.
• Created and coordinated “Life in Short’’ feature, in which readers wrote essays about a significant moment in their lives.

• Directed a staff of 15 critics and editors in writing features and reviews in the areas of movies, television, theater, popular and classical music, tourist activities, online offerings and youth content.
• Launched a series of columns by the theater critic on the need for a theater district in Orlando. Involved a variety of theater groups in a series of community meetings at the Sentinel, which led to creation of the.
• Launched local entertainment component of Orlando Sentinel Online, providing extensive local content for the newspaper’s first venture onto the Web.
• Produced annual Season Preview section, a comprehensive look at upcoming offerings on the local and national arts/entertainment scene.
• Directed coverage of local youth issues through Rave, a section written by high school students. The section placed in the top three of Best Youth Sections in the country for three years.