A. Adam Glenn is an award-winning journalist and digital media consultant who has reported, edited, and managed newsrooms in Washington, D.C. and New York for nearly 30 years, most recently as senior producer for ABCNews.com.
As an online pioneer since the 1990s and independent adviser since 2005, Glenn’s consulting clients have included journalism institutes such as J-Lab, Knight Digital Media Center, Hechinger Institute, and The Reynolds Journalism Institute, where he currently manages an online network for entrepreneurial journalists. His client roster has included organizations ranging from Rodale Inc. and the United Nations to the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation and Autism Speaks, founded by former NBC/Universal Chairman/CEO Bob Wright. He also co-founded two consulting partnerships, including I, Reporter, which won one of the first Knight News Challenge Awards in 2007, and BGV Media, which specializes in digital media strategy for non-profits.
Glenn previously taught at the Columbia University Graduate Journalism School and NYU’s Carter Journalism Institute, as well as on a Ford Fellowship at the Indian Institute for Journalism and New Media in Bangalore. He continues to jointly manage Columbia’s Carnegie/Knight-endowed News21 newsroom incubator project.
Glenn graduated from the journalism program at Boston University, and holds a mid-career Master’s from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy in Medford, Mass. He lives in the Hudson River town of Tarrytown north of New York with his wife, a school administrator, and his first-grade daughter. His father, now 93, was a student at City College in the mid-1930s.

