About Adam Glenn

Adam is an award-winning Internet news veteran now working as an independent online consultant, with a special focus on citizen journalism. During the last 25 years, he has held posts with a wide variety of news media in New York and Washington, most recently as senior producer at ABCNews.com in New York, where he ran health, science, technology and business coverage. His clients include The J-Lab at the University of Maryland, The Knight Digital Media Center at the University of Southern California, NBC Universal Chairman Bob Wright's charitable foundation Autism Speaks, the Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation and Rodale Inc. He currently teaches new media at the Columbia Journalism School, and science, health and environment reporting at NYU Journalism School.

In 2005, Adam co-founded I, Reporter, a citJ training business and blog, with Amy Gahran, long-time blogger and editor of the Poytner Institute's E-Media Tidbits column. Most recently, they won a prestigious Knight News Challenge Grant to launch a new citizen journalism web site covering environmental issues in Boulder, Colo. They also developed an online database mashup of citizen media sites for the Knight Citizen News Network (KCNN.org), and helped launched a local newspaper web site in suburban New York, as well as presented programs and workshops for the New York Press Association and the Columbia Journalism School.

Adam is an active member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, where he serves on the editorial advisory board, and of the Online News Association. He helps organize programs for the annual conferences of each organization. Adam was awarded a 2002 Ford Environmental Journalism Fellowship to teach in India, and a 2005 Environmental Media Fellowship at the Vermont Law School. Also in 2005, he trained at the University of Colorado-Boulder, the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and the National Institutes of Health in Washington, DC. He previously earned a mid-career Masters of International Affairs (environmental policy) at Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy in Boston. He currently lives in the New York area with his wife, who is an educator, and their preschool-age daughter.