Kate Zernike is a national correspondent for The New York Times, where she has been since 2000, covering education, criminal justice, Hurricane Katrina and national elections; she was previously a reporter at The Boston Globe.[1] She is the author of Boiling Mad: Inside Tea Party America (2010), on the Tea Party movement. The Christian Science Monitor in 2010 remarked that "probably no other journalist in the United States has devoted as much time to covering the tea party movement".[2]
Zernike was a member of the New York Times team which shared the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting,[1] for reporting on global terrorism and its networks. She has taught as an adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.[3]
Born and raised in Connecticut, Zernike is a graduate of the University of Toronto and of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She began her career at The Patriot Ledger.[3]