Glenn Jones joined NBC10 Boston and NECN as a reporter and anchor in November of 2021.
A past Boston/New England Emmy Award winner, Glenn has nearly a decade of experience in television news, including a three-year tenure as a general assignment reporter in the Boston market. He also spent four years as an anchor and reporter for the NBC affiliate in Fort Myers, Florida, and at the ABC affiliate in Springfield, Massachusetts.
After working in local TV, Glenn worked as press secretary for the Island of Bermuda, where he led crisis communications and media relations for the country’s highest elected office. In addition, he worked as general manager for MediaHouse, the parent company for Bermuda.com, Island Press and the Bermuda Sun, where he spearheaded the operations, business development, sales and marketing efforts for a company with affiliates throughout the Caribbean region.
He most recently worked as interim CEO and chief experience officer for the Bermuda Tourism Authority, where he held a variety of leadership roles since 2015. During that time, Glenn hosted the globally televised America’s Cup in 2017, secured the world's first spectator-attended PGA Tour event since the start of the pandemic, and created a multi-year national tourism plan that directly helped to reshape the island’s relevance as a sports and luxury vacation destination.
Glenn received his bachelor of science degree in broadcast journalism from Emerson College in Boston.
He is a devoted Boston Celtics and Red Sox fan and is an active community volunteer with special interests in the areas of diversity, equity and inclusion, youth literacy and mentorship.
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Building better financial futures by targeting asset poverty
A local nonprofit is working with federal agencies to help people build stronger financial futures. Nineteen percent of Massachusetts residents are considered to be asset-poor, according to Prosperity Now. That means they don’t have the financial resources to provide basic needs for three months. In Boston that number jumps to 29% Compass Working Capital is a nonprofit, working to help…
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Despite diversity efforts, professional soccer has very few Black head coaches
As the United Soccer League expansion team Rhode Island F.C. plays its first-ever professional match on March 16, it will have a unicorn on the sidelines. Former New England Revolution forward Khano Smith is the club’s head coach — and the league’s only Black head coach among 24 teams. One tier above the USL, in Major League Soccer, the representation…
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Mass. needs more health care workers — can virtual reality help train them?
While new jobs data released Friday put the Massachusetts unemployment rate at an ultra-low 3%, the demand for workers in health care is surging to incredibly high levels. The health care sector had 49,030 job openings as of January 2024, according to the state’s Labor and Workforce Development Office, with demand for nursing especially strong — 17,627 job postings were…
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How marijuana is becoming big business in Fitchburg
Fitchburg, Massachusetts, a relatively small city in Worcester County, has transformed itself into a mega town for marijuana. Converting an old wire-making factory into a cannabis cultivation operation, Garden Remedies was the first to move to Fitchburg in 2016. Since then, six other companies have created similar set ups within the city’s limits and six others are in the...
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Mass. seeks to end disparities that endanger Black women in pregnancy
The first-ever assistant health commissioner in Massachusetts with the word “equity” in the job title has put a priority on eliminating racial disparities in maternal health. Black women in the state are more than twice as likely to suffer severe health complications during pregnancy when compared to white women — and recently, the disparity has widened. “There is something profoundly…
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Harmony Montgomery ‘was afraid of her father,' Mass. investigators were told after issuing report
On the day Adam Montgomery was convicted in New Hampshire of murdering his daughter, the attorney assigned to protect the legal interests of Harmony Montgomery in Massachusetts received a stinging rebuke from a public official. In an NBC10 Boston exclusive interview, Maria Mossaides, the state’s chief child advocate, says after her investigation was published, a credible source came forward...
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Black students say departure of Harvard President Claudine Gay is devastating
Some members of the Black student body at Harvard University, once proud of Claudine Gay’s history-making appointment as the school’s first Black leader, returned to campus this week sorting through the implications her public departure may have on their own futures. “For her to no longer be there, I’m devastated,” said student, RuQuan Brown on TikTok. Days later, the...
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Plastic pot packaging and sustainability: Program provides incentives for recycling
The child safety standards in cannabis packaging require extra layers of plastic to make them more difficult to open. Tree House Craft Cannabis — with two dispensaries in Massachusetts — has a strategy to redeem, recycle and, in some cases even reuse the plastic packaging. “This benefits everyone in the industry,” said Wes Ritchie, co-owner of Tree House Craft Cannabis….
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Acting Cannabis Control Commission chair speaks on agency's current challenges
The Massachusetts Cannabis Commission continues to be embroiled in controversy, from the suspension of its chairwoman to concerns that the body has not followed through on its regulatory promises and obligations to the promises made when the industry first launched in the state. The majority of people we contacted in the Massachusetts cannabis space said they do not believe the…
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Mass. bill would make services more accessible to all veterans
The Army-Navy game is a sporting spectacle brimming passionately with patriotism and pageantry, and for the first time ever, it was played in Massachusetts. In the stands at Gillette Stadium on Saturday was the state’s first ever secretary of Veteran Services, a new cabinet-level position in the Healy administration: Jon Santiago. In the lead-up to the game, NBC10 Boston...
