About
TREY BARRINEAU is a production editor in USA TODAY's Life section, where he fine-tunes and enlivens content for online and print that spans entertainment, pop culture, travel, technology and health. During his time there, he has been honored multiple times for outstanding headlines by the editors of "The Nation's Newspaper."
Trey was hired in 2000 immediately after completing USA TODAY's Loaner Program, a unique mid-career residency/internship that brought a select group of Gannett journalists from across the country to work for four months as full-time staffers at the newspaper's headquarters near Washington, D.C.
Trey has extended his digital footprint beyond USA TODAY via his long-running college football blog, Tigerpundit, which has been published on and off for more than a decade and has been recognized as a pioneer in that niche.
From 1993 to 2000, Trey was a copy editor in both news and sports at the Citizen-Times in Asheville, N.C. While there, his editing, headlines and page designs were a vital part of several award-winning projects, including a body of work that was a finalist for the 1999 Gannett Freedom of Information Award. He also edited and designed the paper's front page and news section during fast-breaking, nationally significant stories such as the manhunt for Olympic Park bomber Eric Robert Rudolph.
Trey began his career covering sports in North Carolina. During his three-year stint as sports editor at the Lenoir News-Topic, some of his stories appeared in papers across the Southeast via the New York Times Regional Media Group's wire service.
Trey is a graduate of Appalachian State University, where as a student journalist he had the ideologically jarring experience of covering speeches by Abbie Hoffman and P.J. O'Rourke in the same semester. He grew up in Charlotte, N.C., but was born near Charleston, S.C., which makes him a true bi-Carolinian. He resides in Fairfax, Va., with his wife, Jacqui, a dog and two cats.
Trey was hired in 2000 immediately after completing USA TODAY's Loaner Program, a unique mid-career residency/internship that brought a select group of Gannett journalists from across the country to work for four months as full-time staffers at the newspaper's headquarters near Washington, D.C.
Trey has extended his digital footprint beyond USA TODAY via his long-running college football blog, Tigerpundit, which has been published on and off for more than a decade and has been recognized as a pioneer in that niche.
From 1993 to 2000, Trey was a copy editor in both news and sports at the Citizen-Times in Asheville, N.C. While there, his editing, headlines and page designs were a vital part of several award-winning projects, including a body of work that was a finalist for the 1999 Gannett Freedom of Information Award. He also edited and designed the paper's front page and news section during fast-breaking, nationally significant stories such as the manhunt for Olympic Park bomber Eric Robert Rudolph.
Trey began his career covering sports in North Carolina. During his three-year stint as sports editor at the Lenoir News-Topic, some of his stories appeared in papers across the Southeast via the New York Times Regional Media Group's wire service.
Trey is a graduate of Appalachian State University, where as a student journalist he had the ideologically jarring experience of covering speeches by Abbie Hoffman and P.J. O'Rourke in the same semester. He grew up in Charlotte, N.C., but was born near Charleston, S.C., which makes him a true bi-Carolinian. He resides in Fairfax, Va., with his wife, Jacqui, a dog and two cats.
