Amy Sneed Barrios
Media Consultant | Public Relations Specialist | Writer | Producer
In 2014 Amy Barrios left a nearly 20-year career in television news to start Multimedia Solutions, a media consulting firm. She left the newsroom and launched into the PR world with knowledge most PR professionals don’t have: the real, inside truth about what it takes to get news coverage. Amy now uses her newsroom knowledge to deliver coverage for her public relations clients.
Amy knows what the news media wants because she was the news media for nearly two decades. As the Executive Producer at WDSU-TV for 11 years, she led the station’s coverage during Hurricane Katrina and the Gulf Oil Spill. As an award-winning journalist, Amy produced numerous live political debates, two of which were moderated by Hardball’s Chris Matthews and aired nationwide on MSNBC. Amy has also worked in several other newsrooms: WWL-TV New Orleans (desk assistant), WGNO-TV New Orleans (news producer), WBRZ-TV Baton Rouge (news producer), and KDFW-TV Dallas (news producer). Amy also worked as a field producer for The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
Amy is a past board member for the New Orleans Press Club and has won nine coveted Press Club Awards for her Public Relations work. In 2015 she was chosen as one of Gambit Magazine’s “40 Under 40 Individuals Making a Difference.” Amy is a lifelong New Orleanian and the mother of two boys.
Who better to control the media for you, than this media insider.