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GBA Global specializes in syndication, cross-border magazine licensing and media consulting.   Founded in 2013 by Gloria Brown Anderson, a former executive of The New York Times, GBA Global facilitates the distribution of meaningful, relevant editorial content and advises media companies on all aspects of operations to  insure the financial and editorial success of newspapers, magazines and websites worldwide.

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As vice president of international and editorial development for the News Services division of The New York Times, Anderson introduced columns by Richard Branson, Esther Dyson, Bill Gates, Mikhail Gorbachev,  Naomi Klein, Nicholas Negroponte, Salman Rushdie, Martha Stewart and Jack & Suzy Welch, among many others.

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She conceived and introduced “Turning Points,” an annual year-end/year-ahead custom magazine now published in more than 30 countries.  She developed licenses for a bilingual edition of T, the New York Times style magazine, in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. A Mandarin-language edition of Science Times magazine, based on the weekly section in The Times, was introduced in China in 2012.

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As part of Harvard Business Review's arrangement with The New York Times Syndicate, she oversaw the  launch of  local-language editions of the Harvard Business Review in Taiwan, China, Poland, Brazil and Spanish-speaking Latin America.

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Before joining The New York Times, Anderson co-founded Miami Today, a weekly business newspaper, and owned and operated The Kendall Gazette in suburban Miami, Florida. She is a former reporter for the Associated Press and editor at The Cincinnati Enquirer in Ohio and The Charlotte Observer in North Carolina. She was managing editor of the Knight News Wire in Washington D.C. and managing editor of The Miami News.

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Anderson is a past president of the World Editors Forum, a global organization of leading editors.  She received the International Matrix Award from Women in Communications

in 2008.