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Grant Gross
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 Grant Gross is Washington, D.C., correspondent for IDG News Service. He covers legislation and regulation related to the technology and telecommunications industries. His coverage areas include: cybersecurity legislation, patent reform, net neutrality legislation, Federal Communications Commission deregulation of broadband services, and U.S. trade policy and its effect on the IT industry.
Grant has worked at the News Service since January 2003. Previously, he served for two and a half years as managing editor at NewsForge.com and Linux.com, two Web sites focused on open-source news, and he helped launch NewsForge in August 2000. Before mid-2000, he served for a year as news editor at Techies.com, helping write and edit an online magazine focused on IT careers.
He worked as an editor and reporter at daily newspapers in the U.S. Midwest for 10 years.
Grant lives in Laurel, Maryland, with his wife, Lisa Cobb, a manager of international public health programs. His hobbies include playing guitar, PC gaming, PC building, and writing cheesy science fiction.
As managing editor of the Owatonna People’s Press, Grant received several awards the 1999 Better Newspapers Contest of the Minnesota Newspaper Association. The awards included best overall newspaper, best design and best reporting in the small daily newspaper category.
Stories:
Security experts: US Lenovo ban misguided
Fight brewing in Congress over net neutrality
New era of telecom giants
Antispam law likely: Congress considers many plans, but will any solve the problem?
Fair use advocates silenced at DRM "public" meeting
LinuxOne keeping a low profile while talking merger
BEATS:
Antitrust Issues
Censorship
Legislation
Privacy/Data Protection
Regulation (U.S.)
Telecom Infrastructure
Telecom Service Providers
Government & Policy |
The IDG News Service distributes exclusive news, features, columns and graphics to Computerworld, CIO, NetworkWorld, PC World, Macworld and Infoworld – technology publications and web sites that account for more than 300 titles circulated in more than 85 countries.
News Service staff journalists report from Tokyo, Taipei, Singapore, Beijing, Bangalore, Paris, London, Brussels, Dublin, New York, Miami, Washington, Boston and San Francisco, and their stories are supplemented by contributions from IDG media worldwide. Each week day, the News Service distributes more than 100 stories across IDG’s global network of technology media outlets.
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