Kate zernike biography
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Kate zernike biography
Kate Zernike
American journalist (born 1968)
Kate Zernike (born December 8, 1968)[1] is an American journalist who is national correspondent for The New York Times, where she has been since April 2000, covering education, criminal justice, Congress, and national elections, and where she covered Hurricane Katrina.
She was previously a reporter at The Boston Globe (1995–2000), where she was responsible for covering education and special projects. She is the author of Boiling Mad: Inside Tea Party America (2010), on the Tea Party movement.
Marjorie Kehe of The Christian Science Monitor remarked in 2010 that it was likely that "no other journalist in the United States has devoted as much time to covering the tea party movement".[2]
Early life and education
Zernike was born in Stamford, Connecticut,[1] the daughter of Barbara (née Backus) and Frits Zernike Jr.[3][4] Her father was a physicist who emigrated from Groning