Tom Zeller Jr.

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Tom Zeller Jr.
Born (1969-04-30) April 30, 1969 (age 54)
Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Education Cleveland State University
Columbia University
OccupationJournalist
Agent(s)Mackenzie Brady Watson, Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency, Inc.
Notable credit(s) The New York Times ; National Geographic Magazine ; The Huffington Post
Websitetomzellerjr.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]

Zeller resides in Montana with his wife, Katherine Zeller. [8]

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  2. Knight Science Journalism fellowships announced
  3. Magnolia Plantation
  4. How Race Is Lived in America
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  6. "Tom Zeller Jr. | Writer". www.tomzeller.com. Retrieved 2016-03-12.
  7. Zeller Jr., Tom (10 June 2022). A Tactical Guide to Science Journalism: Lessons From the Front Lines. Oxford University Press. p. 360. ISBN   9780197551509 . Retrieved 14 November 2022.
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