Tom Zeller Jr. | |
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| Born | April 30, 1969 |
| Education | Cleveland State University Columbia University |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Agent(s) | Mackenzie Brady Watson, Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency, Inc. |
| Notable credit(s) | The New York Times ; National Geographic Magazine ; The Huffington Post |
| Website | tomzellerjr.com |
Thomas Zeller Jr. (born April 30, 1969) [1] 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. [2]
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, [3] part of The Times's Pulitzer prize-winning "How Race Is Lived in America" series. [4] [5]
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. [6]
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). [7] His debut book is "The Headache: The Science of a Most Confounding Affliction—and a Search for Relief" (Mariner, 2025). [8]
Zeller resides in Montana with his wife, Katherine Zeller. [9]
