About me
Glenn H. Burkins is the founder and publisher of Qcitymetro, a digital platform launched in 2008 that provides news and information relevant to Black communities in the Charlotte region. Glenn previously was business editor and later deputy managing editor for news at The Charlotte Observer. He has been a reporter at newspapers including The Wall Street Journal, Philadelphia Inquirer, St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times and Los Angeles Times. At The Wall Street Journal, he covered the Labor Department and the Clinton White House. As Africa bureau chief for the Philadelphia Inquirer, he covered the historic election of Nelson Mandela in South Africa, the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, and one of the early outbreaks of Ebola in the former Zaire (now known as the Democratic Republic of Congo). Glenn holds a journalism degree from the University of South Carolina.