Jeffrey Dean Zeleny (born June 10, 1973) is an American journalist and the chief national affairs correspondent for CNN.

[7] After interning for newspapers including The Wall Street Journal, the Florida Times-Union and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in college, Zeleny started working for The Des Moines Register in 1996.

[8] Although he originally planned to be a sports reporter, the importance of the Iowa caucuses led to him becoming a political specialist.

[6] While at the Tribune, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism for his work on a series about air traffic control problems nationwide.

[11] Zeleny was hired in February 2013 by ABC News to be its senior Washington correspondent and to file stories for the website.