USC Dornsife College Of Letters Arts and Sciences

University of Southern California

Kevin Douglas Grant is co-founder and executive editor of The GroundTruth Project, an award-winning nonprofit media organization that supports the next generation of correspondents, as well as vice president of Report for America, a service-based initiative for revitalizing local journalism. Previously senior editor at GlobalPost, he has led reporting projects around the world and his work has been recognized by the Edward R. Murrow, Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University and Online Journalism Awards among others. He holds an M.A. in Online Journalism from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School, where he was a Dean’s Scholar and the founding executive editor of Annenberg’s pioneering news organization Neon Tommy. Grant is the former operations director of semantic news aggregator Inform.com. He is currently based in Washington, D.C.

Kevin Douglas Grant