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Nancy Weil is a journalist who has spent the last decade working for IDG News Service, the world’s leading IT newswire, where she is currently Assistant News Editor. She edits the weekly staff column, “WorldBeat,” and contributes breaking news stories and analysis to the newswire. She spent seven years as a reporter for the St. Petersburg Times in Florida covering education, courts, crime and other stories.

Prior to that, for seven years Weil worked at The Southern Illinoisan, a regional daily newspaper, where she wrote features and covered higher education, prisons and veterans' issues. She spent a year at her hometown newspaper, the Granite City Press-Record, in Illinois.

Weil has won numerous journalism awards over the years, including a team effort at the St. Petersburg Times: the Green Eyeshade Award from the Society of Professional Journalists given for coverage of a racially motivated murder and its aftermath.