CNN Social Media Director to Succeed Cindi Leive at Glamour
LatestSamantha Barry, the executive producer for social and emerging media at CNN Worldwide, has been named Glamour Magazine’s next editor-in-chief, the New York Times reports. She will succeed Cindi Leive, who helmed the publication for 16 years before “abruptly” announcing her departure in September.
Barry, 36, has never worked at a magazine and has no print experience, which is in line with earlier reports that the higher-ups at Condé Nast were looking for a “nontraditional” candidate to lead Glamour’s next iteration. Before CNN, she was a social media producer and journalist at BBC World News and a media trainer for the U.S. State Department; she was born in Ireland, and is apparently a close friend of Amal Clooney.