Tom Wilber

Who is Tom Wilber?

Tom Wilber is an American journalist and public speaker who specializes in environmental issues. His 2012 book, Under the Surface: Fracking, Fortunes and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale, was selected as a finalist for the 2013 New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism. He wrote for 17 years for the Gannett Company’s Central New York Newspaper Group, where he won individual or team Best of Gannett honors on four occasions, most recently in 2010 for coverage of shale gas development in New York and Pennsylvania. He has taught newspaper journalism at Binghamton University, and holds a masters degree from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications program at Syracuse University.