Tom Zeller, Jr.

Tom Zeller, Jr.
Born 1969
Cleveland, Ohio
Education Cleveland State University, Columbia University
Occupation Journalist
Notable credit(s) The New York Times; National Geographic Magazine; The Huffington Post

Tom Zeller, Jr. is an American reporter and writer who has covered poverty, technology, energy policy and the environment, among other topics, for a variety of publications, including 12 years on staff as a writer and editor at The New York Times. He has also held staff positions at National Geographic Magazine and The Huffington Post.

In 2013-2014, he was awarded a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT.[1]

Zeller has won several awards for visual journalism and multimedia reporting from the Society of News Design and from the University of Navarra, Spain (Malofiej Awards), including prizes for a collection of essays and graphics lending historical context to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; an interactive reconstruction of the shooting of Amadou Diallo; and a multimedia documentary of a Louisiana plantation,[2] part of The Times's Pulitzer prize-winning "How Race Is Lived in America" series.[3][4]

In 2016, Zeller and Pulitzer-prizewinning science writer Deborah Blum launched a new digital science magazine titled Undark. He currently serves as the publication's editor in chief. [5]

He resides in Western Massachusetts with his wife, Katherine Zeller[6]

References

  1. ↑ Knight Science Journalism fellowships announced
  2. ↑ Magnolia Plantation
  3. ↑ How Race Is Lived in America
  4. ↑ New York Times Talk to the Newsroom
  5. ↑ "Tom Zeller Jr. | Writer". www.tomzeller.com. Retrieved 2016-03-12.
  6. ↑ UMass Amherst Department of Environmental Conservation.
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