Zak Koeske is a perpetually curious Pittsburgh-born journalist and writer currently employed as the Patch local editor in Fair Lawn, NJ.
His work has appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, online at AOL Politics Daily and the Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch, and on WAMU radio in Washington.
Zak completed degrees in political science, biology and psychology at the University of Pittsburgh in December 2008 before moving on to Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism for his Master’s in December 2010.
He’s reported on a range of subjects that run the gamut from education to technology, with a little sports and politics mixed in between.
Since early July 2011, he’s also been working on a book about green burial that focuses on Pennsylvania’s first all-green cemetery — Penn Forest Natural Burial Park in Penn Hills.
Past projects have included co-writing a feature-length movie script and doing creative consulting work on a short documentary on jazz in Pittsburgh.
