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Nancy Weil
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 Nancy Weil is managing editor of IDG News Service and she is based in Boston. She edits the weekly WorldBeat column, writes the weekly Top 10 IT news roundup column, helps out with reporting and writing when there is more breaking news than available reporters, supervises the copy desk, and aims to keep the staff honest when it comes to grammar and style (of the language kind, if not the staff's fashion sense).
Nancy has been with IDG News Service since 1997, when she was hired as a U.S. correspondent. Two years later, she moved into editing. Before joining the News Service, she spent seven years at the St. Petersburg Times newspaper in Florida primarily covering education, courts, cops, assorted natural and other disasters, and the range of oddities that tend to occur in Florida. She spent the seven years before that at The Southern Illinoisan, a small regional daily newspaper based in Carbondale, Illinois, where she was a feature writer and columnist after covering education, courts, prisons, and whatever else crossed her desk. She also put in a year at her hometown newspaper, the Granite City Press-Record, covering sports and news.
She grew up in southern Illinois, just across the Mississippi River from St. Louis and is a Cardinals fan by birth, although in her years living in the Boston area she has been swept into Red Sox Nation, not entirely against her will. Besides watching baseball, in her spare time she enjoys reading fiction and nonfiction, writing fiction and poetry, studying theology and African-American history, collecting old postcards, dolls and linens, and she is an avid indoor and outdoor gardener, tending nearly 50 rosebushes that came with the house she and her husband bought a few years ago that has a much-too-large yard. As a consequence, she loathes Japanese beetles with every fiber of her being.
She and her husband, Richard Heck, a philosopher who teaches at Brown University, and daughter, Isobel, live in Canton, Massachusetts, south of Boston, with four cats who run the house.
Nancy has won numerous journalism awards over the years, including being part of a team at the St. Petersburg Times that won a Green Eyeshade Award from the Society of Professional Journalists for coverage of a racially motivated murder and its aftermath.
Stories:
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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