Adam Pitluk

Adam Pitluk is an American investigative journalist, author and academic. He is the founder of Midwest Luxury Publishing and Groom Lake Media. As of June 2026, he is the President/CEO of the North American Travel Journalists Association (NATJA). He has since relocated the headquarters from Los Angeles, California, to Dallas, Texas, with satellite offices in Denver, Colorado, and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

He is the author of the 2006 non-fiction book about Mexican boxer Jesús Chávez titled Standing Eight and the 2007 non-fiction book about U.S. criminal James Scott titled Damned to Eternity.

Biography From 1995 to 1999, Pitluk studied journalism at the University of Missouri and worked at the Columbia Missourian while studying. He has a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma.

He first met convicted vandal James Scott while working at the Columbia Missourian. As an adult, Pitluk relocated to Texas.

After graduation, Pitluk worked as a reporter at People and Time magazines, as an editor for the Dallas Morning News and editor-in-chief of American Way Pitluk contributed to the 2022 Vice News documentary Overlooked which examined the criminal conviction of Scott.