Presents

 Tom Zeller Jr.

“Is this Really MySpace if the World is Watching?”

 Friday, March 2, 2007, Nigh University Center Ballroom, 12:00 p.m.

 Tom Zeller Jr. is a technology and society reporter for the New York Times Business section, a beat he has covered since Aug. 2004. Before that, he was a staff editor in the Week in Review section, beginning in June 2000, where he filled a number of roles, from assigning and editing essays from Times writers and freelancers, to producing large graphic packages and writing his own stories on topics ranging from the dangerous journey of illegal Mexican immigrants across the southwestern deserts to Saddam Hussein's use of body-doubles. He worked on various desks as a graphics editor from Jan. 1999 - June 2000, and before that was a news assistant on the graphics desk from Sept. 1998 - Jan. 1999. Mr. Zeller began his work at The Times as an intern at NYTimes.com from June - Sept. 1998.

 Prior to joining The Times, Mr. Zeller worked as a library clerk at the Cleveland Public Library and Cleveland State University between 1991-1997.  He was an English teacher in Kauhava, Finland from 1989-1990.

 Born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1969, Mr. Zeller earned a B.A. in English and a minor in Political Science from Cleveland State University in 1997 and an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University in 1998.

 He 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 an interactive reconstruction of the shooting of Amadou Diallo and a multimedia documentary of a Louisiana plantation -- part of The Times's Pulitzer prize-winning "How Race Is Lived in America" series.

 Mr. Zeller currently resides in Long Island City, New York.