Julie Glenn
Julie Glenn is the host of Gulf Coast Live. She has been working in southwest Florida as a freelance writer since 2007, most recently as a regular columnist for the Naples Daily News. She began her broadcasting career in 1993 as a reporter/anchor/producer for a local CBS affiliate in Quincy, Illinois. After also working for the NBC affiliate, she decided to move to Parma, Italy where she earned her Master’s degree in communication from the University of Gastronomic Sciences. Her undergraduate degree in Mass Communication is from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
Fluent in Italian, Julie has also worked with Italian wine companies creating and translating web content and marketing materials. Her work has been featured in international, national, and local magazines. She has served as president of the local chapter of Slow Food where she remains on the board. Her interests include cooking, traveling, and spending time with her family.
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Mid-October is the ideal time to plant strawberries in Southwest Florida. WGCU's Julie Glenn talked with Dr. Vance Whittaker with the Strawberry Breeding and Genetics program at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) Gulf Coast Research and Education Center. -
The policy, which has limited exceptions, was instituted in an effort to protect patients and staff from rising cases of COVID-19. -
It's hard not to stare into the eye of any storm, but the more mundane storm effects can pack a punch, so pay attention. -
In Fort Myers, older people waited in line for hours to get a COVID-19 vaccine. Officials have apologized and say they fixed the problem, but what's next as the state ramps up distribution? -
Hope Hospice executive director Samira K. Beckwith offers a sense of what it’s been like providing care during the pandemic. -
This week, winds shifted from the west to the east, bringing a patch of red tide closer to shore and depositing dead fish and other sea life onto the...
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While red tide algal blooms have occurred off the coast of western Florida since before the state was heavily developed – the earliest accounts of its... -
It’s been 20 years since the mass shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado. We’re joined by Austin Eubanks , who was a student at the school and... -
The federal government recently released a report claiming climate change is, in fact, real. The report confirms that climate change is an issue that is... -
The Sanibel and Captiva Chamber of Commerce reports businesses on the two islands lost $19 million in just July and August. Thursday, US Senator Bill...
