# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nick-barbaro
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:57:40.688Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nick-barbaro"
name: "Nick Barbaro"
slug: "nick-barbaro"
description: "Niccolo Raffaele Barbaro, better known as Nick Barbaro, is an American journalist and businessman who is the co-founder of The Austin Chronicle and co-creator of the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival. Barbaro's contributions have helped define the Austin, Texas music community."
tagline: "American journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/NicBarbaro-Spamarama-20190706.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1952"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41
  momentum:             8.088113455821434
  historical:           1.546437333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  54
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/nickbarbaro"
    handle:    "nickbarbaro"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickbarbaro/"
    handle:    "nickbarbaro"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Barbaro"
    title: "Nick Barbaro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76574487"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations