Kate Zernike

Kate Zernike (born December 8, 1968) 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, 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".

Early life and education Zernike was born in Stamford, Connecticut, Her father was a physicist who emigrated from Groningen, the Netherlands in 1956; at University of Toronto,

Career Zernike began her career in journalism at The Patriot Ledger in Quincy, Massachusetts, where she worked from 1992 to 1995.

Zernike became a national correspondent for The New York Times in April 2000, where she covers education, criminal justice, Congress, and national elections.

She has also taught as an adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. which was for reporting on global terrorism and its networks.

She also won the Education Writers Association prize for news feature reporting in 2000, and the Benjamin Fine Award in 1995.

Works Boiling Mad: Inside Tea Party America, New York:Times Books (

Personal In 2005, she married Dr. Jonathan D. Schwartz in a ceremony presided over by a leader from the New York Society for Ethical Culture. Zernike lives in Montclair, NJ with her family. She has two sons with her husband.