ABOUT TODD PITOCK
A web site has been on my to-do list for a while, and I’m still getting around to it. But here’s a quick snapshot and contact information (below), and until I have this up and running properly, I’m happy to send pdfs and URLs if you’d like to see work samples.

I’m a fulltime freelancer whose work has appeared in publications including the Washington Post Magazine, Good Housekeeping, the American Lawyer, National Geographic Traveler, Salon, and ForbesLife, where I am a contributing editor and columnist.

I’m a generalist: if it’s a subject that would engage intelligent people over dinner, it’s probably something I’d do. My curiosity has been a vehicle to meet fascinating people and travel widely, including much of the North America, Europe, Africa and the Middle East – Baghdad and Fallujah, Omaha and Lubbock, Texas. I spent five years abroad, including two in Israel and three in South Africa.

My investigative features have included stories about the South African Police locking up street children (Femina) and why Nelson Mandela, who granted me an interview, allied himself with Libya’s Qaddafi (Salon). Later, I went to Libya to peek behind the Arab Iron Curtain (Forbes FYI), and subsequently to Niger, where I met the Sultan of Agadez and learned about the art of Tuareg blacksmiths (ForbesLife). Recently, I journeyed to Jordan, Egypt and Tunisia to ask physicists, nuclear engineers, doctors, Jordan’s Prince Hassan, an ex-prime minister, and others about science and the Arab world (Discover). Not everything is so far afield. Currently I’m working on a piece about the proliferation of gangs in America’s suburbs.

Forbes FYI Cover Photo and Cover Story, Discover Cover Story by Todd Pitock.

Nor is everything so dark or heavy. I write a golf column for ForbesLife and have contributed numerous personal and humorous essays. My work has appeared in various languages and in numerous countries, including China, Korea, Australia, South Africa, Britain, Singapore and Denmark. I’ve dabbled in photography, publishing in magazines including Femina, SilverKris (Singapore), World (New Zealand), Polo (Australia), Golf Leisure & Lifestyle (Australia), the Washington Post, New York Newsday, the Miami Herald, and ForbesLife, including that latter’s October 2005 cover shot.

Awards and honors include the 2007 Solas Travel Writing Award (gold); a 2006 “notable” mention in Best American Travel Writing; a 2005 Lowell Thomas Award (gold); a 2003 Simon Rockower Award for excellence in feature writing; and inclusion in Best Jewish Writing 2003. 

I live in Villanova, about 20 minutes west of Philadelphia, with my wife, Toni, and three children.

Email is the best way to get in touch
todd@toddpitock.com
My office # is 610-525-2190.