Jeff Zeleny is a White House correspondent for The New York Times, covering President Obama and the administration. He has traveled with Mr. Obama across the United States and the world, including reporting from Cairo in June 2009, when the president delivered his first major address to the Muslim world. He covered the 2008 presidential campaign, and before the presidential race began, he covered Congress for the newspaper.

Zeleny came to The Times in September 2006 from The Chicago Tribune, where he worked as the national political correspondent for five years, covering the first years of the George W. Bush administration as well as the 2004 presidential campaign. In 2005, he chronicled Senator Barack Obama’s first year in Washington, writing the first draft of the Senator’s rise to prominence. He traveled to Russia, Ukraine and Azerbaijan with Mr. Obama in 2005, and to Africa the following year.

Zeleny joined The Tribune in 2000 as a reporter on the Metropolitan desk in Chicago, where he was a member of the reporting team that won a Pulitzer Prize in explanatory journalism for documenting gridlock in the nation’s air traffic system.