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]

References

External links

• Undark Magazine, About
• Bio at Undark Magazine
• Story archive at The New York Times
• Tom Zeller Jr., personal Web site
• The Huffington Post, bio and stories by Tom Zeller Jr. at The Huffington Post