Nick Barbaro
{{Short description|American journalist}}
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Niccolo Raffaele Barbaro (born 1952), better known as Nick Barbaro, is an American journalist and businessman who is the co-founder of The Austin Chronicle and co-creator of the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival. Barbaro's contributions have helped define the Austin, Texas music community.
He co-owns the South by Southwest festival, which he co-created with Roland Swenson, Louis Black and Louis Jay Meyers in 1987.[http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/01476/cah-01476.html A Guide to the South By Southwest, Inc., Records, 1987–1997], Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin{{cite news |last1=Pulcrano |first1=Dan |title=SXSW: The Festival that Ate Austin & Took a Bite out of Silicon Valley |url=http://www.metroactive.com/features/SXSW-Music-Film-Interactive-Festival-Austin-Texas-New-Technology-Silicon-Valley.html |accessdate=November 5, 2019 |publisher=Metro Newspapers |date=March 23, 2016}} He was also the publisher of The Austin Chronicle, an alternative weekly newspaper, which he founded in 1981 with Louis Black.{{cite news |last1=Black |first1=Louis |title=Page Two: Printing the Legend A brief history of Austin's improbable weekly, 28 years on |url=https://www.austinchronicle.com/columns/2009-08-07/819370/ |accessdate=November 5, 2019 |publisher=The Austin Chronicle |date=August 7, 2009}} In March 2025, Barbaro retired after 46 years and named Cassidy Frazier as the new publisher. Barbaro will remain as president of the Austin Chronicle Corporation.
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|title= Nick Barbaro retires as publisher of `The Austin Chronicle'
|url=https://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/whispers/nick-barbaro-retires-as-publisher-of-the-austin-chronicle/
|newspaper=The Austin Monitor
|access-date= April 5, 2025 }}
Biography
Barbaro is the son of Marilyn Buferd (Miss America 1946) and Francesco Barbaro, a WWII Italian submarine commander, movie agent and producer.{{cite web |title=Marilyn Buferd Profile |url=http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/446/Marilyn+Buferd/index.html |website=Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen |accessdate=November 5, 2019}} Barbaro grew up in Los Angeles and also Dallas. He attended UCLA where he developed his interest in cinema.{{cite web |last1=Maxwell |first1=Jane Carlisle |title=Musicians Off the Record |url=https://commstudies.utexas.edu/research/musicians-record/scene-makers/nick-barbaro |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210924152653/https://commstudies.utexas.edu/research/musicians-record/scene-makers/nick-barbaro |archive-date=2021-09-24 |website=Moody College of Communication at The University of Texas at Austin}}
In the mid-1970s he moved to Austin and enrolled in the University of Texas. There he earned a graduate degree in Radio, Television, and Film. While at UT he worked on The Daily Texan where he served as film critic.
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