Wendy M. Grossman

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Wendy M. Grossman

Wendy M. Grossman (born New York City, January 26, 1954) is a journalist, blogger, and folksinger. She graduated from Cornell University in 1975 and Riverdale Country School in 1971. She was a full-time folksinger from 1975–83 and her folk album Roseville Fair was released in 1980, and MP3s from it are available on her Web site.

In 1987, she founded the magazine The Skeptic in the United Kingdom.

Her credits since 1990 include work for Scientific American, The Guardian, and the Daily Telegraph, as well as New Scientist, Wired and Wired News, and The Inquirer for which she wrote a regular weekly net.wars column. That column continues in NewsWireless every Friday. She was a columnist for Internet Today from July 1996 until it closed in April 1997, and together with Dominic Young ran the Fleet Street Forum.

She edited an anthology of interviews with leading computer industry figures taken from the pages of the British computer magazine Personal Computer World. Entitled Remembering the Future, it was published in January 1997 by Springer Verlag. Her 1998 book net.wars was one of the first to have its full text published on the Web.

She sits on the executive committee of the Association of British Science Writers and the Advisory Councils of the Open Rights Group and Privacy International.