About Steven Gray

Steven Gray opened Time Inc.’s Detroit Bureau as Correspondent in August 2009 after having been a Chicago-based reporter for TIME’s print and online editions since August 2007. His coverage included the 2008 presidential race, the economic crisis, the Midwestern floods, and a profile of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. He has appeared on National Public Radio and Fox News for TIME. Between 2004 and 2007 he was a Chicago-based reporter for The Wall Street Journal, and starting in 1998 he was a reporter for The Washington Post. His work has appeared in Fortune, People, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune Magazine, The Boston Globe, The Times-Picayune, The Nation, and on Chicago Public Radio.

He was born in New Orleans and graduated from Howard University, where he was editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, The Hilltop. He was a graduate student at the University of Kent’s Brussels School of International Studies. In 2007, he became a Poynter Institute Ethics Fellow, and in 2009 he was a fellow at the University of California at Berkeley’s Knight Digital Media Center. In addition, he helps direct Time Inc.’s High School Journalism Project.

E-mail: time.detroitbureau@gmail.com