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.
[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.
[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).