Maria Korolov

Maria Korolov

Editor-in-Chief at Hypergrid Business
Springfield, United States

About me

Maria Korolov writes about cyber security and artificial intelligence. Email story pitches to maria@korolov.com.

She has over 20 years of experience covering enterprise technology, mostly for IDG publications.

She also ran a business news bureau in China for five years for SourceMedia. She has also reported for the Chicago Tribune, Reuters, UPI, the Associated Press and The Hollywood Reporter.

She began focusing on technology in 2000, as a staff writer at Computerworld. She then went on to work as the technology columnist for Securities Industry News, then as a regular contributor to IDG's CSO magazine. She has been the editor of Hypergrid Business, an online publication covering virtual environments, since 2009.

In the 1990s, she was a war correspondent in the former Soviet Union and reported from a dozen war zones, including Chechnya and Afghanistan.

In addition to her writing work, she is the business manager of the China Speakers Bureau, which places China experts such as Tom Doctoroff in speaking events around the world. She is the co-author of the book A Changing China, and editor of Warren Liu's book China Key Success Factors.

She is also the founder of Women in Virtual Reality, a professional networking group.

Positions

Editor and Publisher
Hypergrid Business
United States
2009 - Present (15 years 9 months)
Hypergrid Business is an online publication covering the enterprises uses of virtual environments. Maria Korolov writes and edits news, features and opinion articles, recruits freelance reporters and columnists, and manages social media outreach and other marketing efforts. Since it launched in early 2009, the publication has grown to a high of nearly 350,000 monthly page views, with contributions from 195 different writers and industry experts. It is indexed by Google News, and has been ranked as one of the top ten virtual reality blogs in the world.

Other professional activities

Epica Awards, Paris

Awards Jury Member
2018 - Present (6 years 9 months)

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