Eric Barnes is CEO of The Daily Memphian, an online daily news source in Memphis that launched in September 2018. Additionally, for 10 years, he’s hosted Behind the Headlines on WKNO, the local PBS station in Memphis. For more than a year he’s hosted The Extra Podcast on The Daily Memphian, which focuses on arts and culture. Barnes is also a part-owner of a group of community newspapers in Tennessee, as well as the author of four novels, including The City Where We Once Lived. Years ago, he drove a forklift in Tacoma, Washington, and Kenai, Alaska, worked construction on Puget Sound, and froze fish in a warehouse outside Anchorage.