Thomas "Tom" Jeffrey Knudson (born 6 July 1953) is an American journalist and a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner in 1985 and 1992.
Thomas Jeffrey Knudson was born 6 July 1953 in the city of Manning in Carroll County, Iowa.
[1] He attended Thomas Jefferson High School in Council Bluffs, Iowa, graduating the class of 1971.
[1] In 1985, Knudson created a series of articles published in The Des Moines Register that examined the occupational dangers of farming, including high cancer rates and machinery-related accidents.
[3][4] A number of his family members were farmers in the Manning-area, and when he was a boy, his cousin had been run over by a tractor.