Wendy M. Grossman (born January 26, 1954) is a
journalist,
blogger, and
folksinger. Her writing has been published in several newspapers, magazines, and specialized publications. She is the recipient of the 2013 Enigma Award for
information security reporting.
In 1987, she founded the magazine The Skeptic in the
United Kingdom and edited it for two years, resuming the editorship from 1999 to 2001. As founder and editor, she has appeared on numerous UK TV and radio programmes. 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 and on her own site 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 on CompuServe UK in the mid-1990s.[2]
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.[3] Her 1998 book net.wars was one of the first to have its full text published on the Web.[4]
She was a member of an external board that advised
Edinburgh University on the creation of the
Intellectual Property and Law Centre.[5]
Grossman was a full-time
folk singer from 1975 to 1983 and her folk album Roseville Fair was released in 1980. She also played on
Archie Fisher's 1976 LP The Man With a Rhyme.[9]
She was president of the Cornell Folk Song Club, the oldest university-affiliated, student-run folk song club in the US, from 1973 to 1975.[10]
In 2013, Grossman was the winner of the Enigma Award, part of the
BT Information Security Journalism Awards, "for her dedication and outstanding contribution to information security journalism, recognising her extensive writing on the subject for several publications over a number of years".[13]
Works
Remembering the Future: Interviews from Personal Computer World (1996)[14]
^Grossman, Wendy (2001). The Daily Telegraph A–Z guide to the Internet. London: Macmillan.
ISBN0333905571.
^Grossman, Wendy (2003). The Daily Telegraph small business guide to computer networking : what you need to know about using technology to improve your business. London: Macmillan.
ISBN1405021039.