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Lorry I. Lokey Visiting Professor of Professional Journalism and Acting Director of the Graduate Program in Journalism, Department of Communication, Stanford University
Ann Grimes is a former staff writer and editor for The Wall Street Journal where she covered technology and business. As Deputy Bureau Chief in San Francisco, she oversaw the newspaper's coverage of Silicon Valley during the 1990's dot-com boom and bust. While at Dow Jones & Co., she also worked on developing new-media strategy. Earlier, Grimes was on the editorial staff of The Washington Post. As the Deputy National Editor responsible for coverage of the federal government, she ran a national news section that covered the political spectrum. Starting out, she wrote about social issues in Chicago and contributed regularly to The New York Times.
Grimes is the author of Running Mates: The Making of a First Lady, a look at the 1988 presidential campaign and a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. She is the recipient of several journalism awards including the Society of Professional Journalist's Peter Lisagor Award for Exemplary Journalism, the Education Writers Association National Award, and two Chicago Newspaper Guild Awards. She was a member of the Journal editorial staff that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News for coverage of 9/11. In 1997-1998, she was a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford.
Grimes teaches classes in public issues reporting, business and technology, digital media and entrepreneurship. She previously was a teaching fellow at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Georgetown University and an M.A. in Humanities from the University of Chicago.
Grimes is expanding an interdisciplinary Digital Media Entrepreneurship course for the Graduate Program in Journalism. She will use her funds to support a research assistant for a case study initiative that focuses, in part, on women entrepreneurs in digital media and media created for women, as well as for technical support to create a website showcasing these case studies. She is organizing a series of career seminars and workshops with visiting female digital media entrepreneurs and journalists, given that the journalism cohort at Stanford, like many other journalism programs, is increasingly female.
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