Nancy Weil

Nancy Weil is managing editor of IDG News Service and is based in Boston. She supervises the copy desk, edits News Service content most weekdays, aims to keep the staff honest when it comes to grammar and style, and although she does not cover a beat, she pitches in to help cover breaking news when the need arises.

Nancy has been with IDG News Service since 1997, when she started 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 (now the Tampa Bay Times) in Florida primarily covering education, courts and cops, as well as 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 Celtics basketball, 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.

She and her husband, Richard Heck, a philosopher who teaches at Brown University, and daughter, Isobel, live in Canton, Massachusetts, south of Boston, with a bunch of cats.

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. She is a graduate of Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.