Mary Fran Gleason

Mary Fran Gleason is manager editor of the Times Union in Albany, N.Y., where she is leading Prometheus: the project to implement a new workflow process supported by new technology that will turn the newsroom into a seamless 24/7 operation. Ms. Gleason initially joined the Times Union as managing editor for features and sports in February 2001 and was promoted to her new role in July 2002. Previously, she spent 12 years with the Syracuse Newspapers in a variety of reporting and senior management roles, including Assistant Managing Editor/Metro and Assistant Managing Editor/Features. Ms. Gleason began her journalism career working for the Shelter Island Reporter, a weekly newspaper serving her hometown of Shelter Island, N.Y. She eventually became the paper’s managing editor. She is a graduate of the Advanced Executive Program at the Media Management Center, Northwestern University and has attended numerous seminars at the American Press Institute and elsewhere. She holds a master's degree in public affairs reporting from Columbia College Chicago and a degree in English with business concentration from the College of St. Elizabeth in Convent Station, N.J. She is an adjunct professor of journalism at the University at Albany and has taught journalism at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and at North Park College in Chicago.