20 Under 40 - 1996 Profile: Sara Glines

PRESSTIME

By Presstime Magazine

First Published: December 1996

Sara Glines was born in Rockford, Ill., went to eighth-grade near Buffalo and graduated from high school there after her family moved California. Army brat? Nope, newspaper brat.

Glines, currently electronic-publishing editor at the New Haven Register (morning, circulation 100,261), says despite growing up with newspapers (father Jack Winning edits the Chico [Calif.] Enterprise-Record), she was a psychology major in college and originally planned a career in ergonomics. However, newspaper jobs paid the bills while she attended school.

These days, she grows increasingly pleased with a newspaper career that began at the San Francisco Examiner, where she met husband and former staff photographer Paul Glines. She now focuses on the Register's World Wide Web site, CTcentral (http://www.ctcentral.com), launched this month. Glines predicts that online technology will evolve much as television did. "In the early days of television," she points out, "technology-oriented people used it. Now, you just turn it on, and you don't think about how it works."

Internet users today need at least a smattering of computer knowledge to download pages or troubleshoot problems, but "soon, it will be widely available to people who aren't computer experts," she says.

Glines wants the Register's Web site to foster community among users interested in the same issues, whether they be Native Americans discussing a tribe-operated casino or University of Connecticut basketball fans reliving every fast break.

"Going online is fun, looking to see what's out there. Things change so quickly on the Internet, if you don't do that every day, you'll miss something."