Also known as: mgrass
Michael E. Grass is an editor, political journalist and Web developer based in the District of Columbia, where he is currently the Washington DC editor for The Huffington Post. Before that, he served as assistant managing editor at Washington City Paper.His career has taken him from Roll Call to The Washington Post to The New York Observer, where he served as Deputy Managing Editor for The Observer’s national Politicker.com enterprise,? which at its height had about 30 reporters and editors covering politics in 17 states and in D.C. during the 2008 election cycle. Michael is the founding co-editor of DCist.com, the fifth of Gothamist.com’s local-focused news sites. He also helped launch and build the website for The Washington Post’s free daily newspaper, Express, where he was Local and Web Editor. While his family has roots in the District of Columbia dating to the 1860s, Michael also has firm Michigan ties, growing up in East Grand Rapids, attending the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and serving as an editor and reporter for The Michigan Daily. Michael has written for Crain’s Detroit Business and is a published?contributor to “Writing Ann Arbor: A Literary Anthology†(U-M Press. 2005).
