Tom Zeller Jr.

Thomas Zeller Jr. (born April 30, 1969) is an American journalist 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.

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, part of ''The Timess Pulitzer prize-winning "How Race Is Lived in America" series.

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

He is a co-editor and contributing author of the book "A Tactical Guide to Science Journalism: Lessons From the Front Lines" (Oxford University Press, 2022).

Zeller resides in Montana with his wife, Katherine Zeller.Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute

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External links

Undark Magazine, About
at ''The New York Times''
Tom Zeller Jr., personal Web siteThe Huffington Post, bio and stories by Tom Zeller Jr.
at ''The Huffington Post''

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American male journalists
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1969 births
Cleveland State University alumni
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni
Journalists from Ohio
Writers from Cleveland
20th-century American journalists
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American journalists
21st-century American male writers