Kevin Douglas Grant

Kevin is a journalism geek who hails from Chicago, Illinois. He spent more than three years working in New York City’s “Silicon Alley” building the content enrichment firm Inform Technologies. He then moved to Los Angeles to enroll in a master's program for online journalsm at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School. They awarded him a Dean's Scholarship.

At Annenberg, he was executive editor of Neon Tommy, a Web-only news organization devoted to innovating in the Web media space and serving its community. He also served as Silicon Valley Correspondent for South Africa-based tech site Memeburn.com and worked for Los Angeles-based Truthdig.

Today, Kevin lives in Boston and has recently co-founded a non-profit news organization called The GroundTruth Project. That endeavor emerged out of his time as the Senior Editor of Special Reports at international news site GlobalPost. He is drawn to opportunities where budding technologies intersect with reporting and information sharing. He makes many of his decisions based on the relative proximity of good coffee shops.