Ann Grimes

Ann is a veteran journalist, she has held senior editorial positions at The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. Earlier, she served as Director of Stanford University’s Graduate Program in Journalism, co-directed the bi-coastal Brown Institute for Media Innovation, anchored at Stanford’s School of Engineering and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. She also served as interim director of Columbia’s Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism. She earned her MA from the University of Chicago, BA from Georgetown, and was a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford.

Ann Grimes currently serves as Director, Journalism Fellowships at the Starling Lab for Data Integrity at Stanford and USC. She works with journalists and students at Stanford University tearching classes at the intersection of media and technology in Stanford’s Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Business, the Hasso Plattner School of Design (the d.school), and Department of Communication. She is the establishes and guides the journalism projects and fellowships through Starling Labs’ Capture, Store, Verify Framework and serves as an advisor, editor, and mentor for the journalism fellows.