Todd Pitock

Todd Pitock

Todd Pitock is a travel and investigative writer.  His articles have appeared in more than 150 publications, including Discover, The Atlantic, the Wall St. Journal, the New York Times, Reader’s Digest, ForbesLife, The Discovery Channel Magazine, National Geographic Traveler, the Washington Post, The Economist’s Intelligent Life, the Washington Post Magazine, Forbes FYI, Washingtonian, the American Lawyer, Tikkun, the Jerusalem Report, the Saturday Evening Post and other publications worldwide.

Todd Pitock ‘s work has been recognized with eight awards by the American Society of Journalists & Authors, most recently in 2018 for a story about the Japanese obsession with baseball, and four Lowell Thomas Awards, the top American honor for travel writing, including  gold in 2015 as Travel Journalist of the Year and silver in 2018 in the cruise travel category. I’ve been the recipient of grants from Investigative Reporters and Editors, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, and the Lily Foundation for Religious Writers, among others.

Todd’s work has been anthologized in Best Travel Writing, Best Jewish Writing and Best American Science and Nature Writing, and has appeared in dozens of languages and several hundred titles around the globe, among them the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, National Geographic Traveler, Israel’s Haaretz, Australia’s Good Weekend, Aeon, Salon, Nautilus, and many more.

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