Samantha Barry
{{short description|Irish journalist and editor}}
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| birth_date = {{birth based on age as of date|36 |2018|01|28}} {{cite news |last= Kelly|first=Keith |date=January 8, 2018 |title=Condé Nast picks social media guru to run Glamour |url=https://nypost.com/2018/01/08/conde-nast-picks-social-media-guru-to-run-glamour/ |work=New York Post |location=New York |access-date=January 8, 2018 }}
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| nationality = Irish
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| occupation = Editor in Chief
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| known_for = CNN head of social media, editor of Glamour BBC News, RTE News
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Samantha Barry is the current editor-in-chief for Glamour magazine.
Career
Barry was born in Ballincollig, Cork, Ireland, to Máiréad and David Barry, and graduated with an Arts degree in English and Psychology from University College Cork{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108060322/https://www.ucc.ie/en/magazine/articles/samantha-barry.html |archive-date=8 November 2017 |url=https://www.ucc.ie/en/magazine/articles/samantha-barry.html |title=Samantha Barry |website=ucc.ie |date=21 November 2016 |access-date= March 16, 2018}} and an MA in Journalism from Dublin City University.
Starting with The University Examiner, Barry has worked as a reporter and journalist for RTÉ, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Newstalk, the BBC, and CNN, where she was an executive producer for CNN Worldwide.
Barry led news coverage from the 2016 presidential election and interviewed all the candidates.{{cite web |url=https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2018/0109/931996-samantha-barry-appointed-editor-of-glamour-magazine/ |title=Samantha Barry appointed editor of Glamour magazine |newspaper=RTÉ |date=9 January 2018 |access-date= March 16, 2018}}{{cite web |url=https://www.image.ie/life/4-things-to-know-about-new-irish-editor-in-chief-of-glamour-magazine-samantha-barry-107938 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180317231844/https://www.image.ie/life/4-things-to-know-about-new-irish-editor-in-chief-of-glamour-magazine-samantha-barry-107938 |archive-date=17 March 2018 |title=4 Things To Know About New Irish Editor-In-Chief Of Glamour Magazine Samantha Barry |website=image.ie |url-status=live |date=9 January 2018 |first=Niamh |last=O'Donoghue |access-date=6 November 2018}} Led by Barry, CNN's 2016 election coverage received the first ever Edward R. Murrow Award for excellence in social media and a Webby Award recognizing the same 2016 campaign work.{{cite web |url=https://www.independent.ie/business/media/irish-woman-samantha-barry-announced-as-editorinchief-of-conde-nasts-glamour-36468307.html |title=Irish woman Samantha Barry announced as editor-in-chief of Conde Nast's Glamour|website=Independent.ie |date=8 January 2018 |access-date= March 16, 2018}}
Barry has also worked as a guest lecturer at Yale University and is a Sulzberger Fellow at Columbia University.{{cite web |url=http://thegloss.ie/get-to-know-samantha-barry-glamours-new-editor-in-chief/ |title=Get To Know Samantha Barry, Glamour's New Editor-in-Chief – The Gloss Magazine |newspaper=The gloss |date=9 January 2018 |access-date= March 16, 2018}}{{cite web|url=http://www.thejournal.ie/samantha-barry-glamour-3786984-Jan2018/|title=Irish journalist named new editor of Glamour magazine · TheJournal.ie|access-date=March 16, 2018|newspaper=Thejournal.ie|date=8 January 2018 }}
= ''Glamour'' magazine =
In 2018, she was announced as the editor of the US edition of women's magazine Glamour. She is the eighth editor since the magazine's founding in 1939. Barry is the first person never to have worked in print media before leading a Condé Nast magazine.{{cite web|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/meet-samantha-barry-the-new-irish-editor-in-chief-of-glamour-1.3348796|title=Meet Samantha Barry, the new Irish editor-in-chief of 'Glamour'|date=8 January 2018|access-date=March 16, 2018|newspaper=The Irish Times}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/08/business/media/conde-nast-glamour-editor.html|title=Condé Nast Chooses a Digital-First Editor to Run Glamour|date=8 January 2018|access-date=March 16, 2018|newspaper=The New York Times}}{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/life/social-queens-the-irish-women-leading-the-digital-media-revolution-31379002.html|title=Social Queens: The Irish women leading the digital media revolution|date=16 March 2018|access-date=March 16, 2018|newspaper=Independent}} Under Barry's editorship, the US edition of the magazine ceased publishing a monthly print edition to focus on a digital-first model. The January 2019 issue was the last monthly US print issue of Glamour.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/20/business/media/glamour-magazine-ends-monthly-print-publication.html|title=Glamour magazine US goes online only|work=The New York Times |date=2018-11-21|access-date=2019-03-04|language=en-GB|last1=Peiser |first1=Jaclyn }}
Personal life
Barry lives near Gramercy Park in New York City.{{cite web | url=https://www.independent.ie/life/samantha-barry-getting-the-keys-to-my-new-york-apartment-i-felt-like-a-power-bitch-i-couldnt-dream-that-growing-up-in-a-council-estate-in-cork/a1470846713.html | title=Samantha Barry: 'Getting the keys to my New York apartment, I felt like a power bitch. I couldn't dream that growing up in a council estate in Cork' | date=5 May 2024 }}
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Category:21st-century Irish women writers
Category:Alumni of Dublin City University
Category:Alumni of University College Cork
Category:Irish emigrants to the United States
Category:21st-century Irish journalists
Category:Irish women journalists
Category:Irish magazine editors
Category:Newspaper reporters and correspondents
Category:People from Ballincollig