Biography

Tom Gross is a former Jerusalem correspondent for the Sunday Telegraph of London and for the New York Daily News.

In addition, he has written news reports, features, articles, editorials and reviews for a broad range of other publications. These include the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, National Review (USA), London Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, New York Post, National Post (Canada), London Evening Standard, Spectator (UK), Ha’aretz (Israel), Ma’ariv (Israel), Jerusalem Post, Jerusalem Report, Jewish Chronicle, Harper’s and Queen (London), Italian Elle (Milan) and Cosmopolitan magazine (London). He also worked as a staff writer and editor at the Jerusalem Post for two years.

In recent years, Gross has also worked as a political and media commentator and analyst. He also co-writes the media blog on National Review online.

Besides receiving various positive accolades, he has been parodied on John Stewart’s The Daily Show, and jokingly voted World’s Worst Person on Keith Olbermann’s MSNBC Countdown program. (Gross says he was misquoted by Olbermann.)

Gross has also been called a Stakhanovite.

Prague

Before being based in the Middle East, Gross lived and worked in Prague, where he served as correspondent (covering the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Albania) for the London Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph. He also wrote a regular weekly op-ed column for the Prague Post and occasional op-eds for Lidove Noviny (a leading Czech daily newspaper).

Elle and MTV

In 1993-5, he was a key member of the team that helped launch the Czech edition of Elle magazine. (This included his finding the magazine’s editor-in-chief.) This was the first international glossy magazine title in post-communist Eastern Europe. Tom Gross also served as Prague Events Coordinator for MTV Europe.

Oxford and Law

Gross was educated at Oxford University (where he studied politics, philosophy and economics), and is a qualified lawyer (having trained with two London law firms, specializing in media and entertainment law, and in industrial relations and libel law).

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