For more than a decade Gray worked as a reporter for TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. In 2009, he opened Time Inc.’s Detroit office as bureau chief, developing content for TIME, Fortune and People magazines. Between 2010 and 2012 he was TIME's Washington correspondent covering the intersection of politics, policy and Business. His coverage has included Barack Obama, the Great Recession, poverty, education, Criminal justice reform, the global food industry, corporate governance, BP’s response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, the same-sex marriage debate, Hurricane Katrina, and the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.