David Zurawik Explained

David Zurawik
Birth Name:David Lee Zurawik
Birth Date:26 October 1949[1]
Birth Place:Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
Occupation:Journalist, writer, media critic
Education:University of Wisconsin–Madison (MA)
University of Maryland, College Park (PhD)
Doctoral Advisor:Lawrence E. Mintz
Workplaces:Goucher College
Notable Works:The Jews of Prime Time

David Lee Zurawik (born October 26, 1949) is an American journalist, writer, and professor.He has been the TV and media critic at The Baltimore Sun since 1989 and is an assistant professor of communications and media studies at Goucher College. Before that, Zurawik was a TV critic/columnist at the Dallas Times Herald.[2] Zurawik is the author of The Jews of Prime Time.

Early life and education

Zurawik was born to a Jewish family[3] and earned a master's degree in specialized reporting from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a doctorate in American studies from the University of Maryland, College Park.[4] His dissertation in 2000 was titled The Jews of prime time: Ethnicity, self-censorship and assimilation in network television, 1949–1999. His doctoral advisor was Lawrence E. Mintz.[5]

Career

After completing graduate school, Zurawik first worked as a speech writer and press secretary for Wisconsin's Democratic lieutenant governor.[6] He then worked as a reporter and critic for the Dallas Times Herald before joining The Baltimore Sun in 1989 as its television critic.[7] His syndicated column runs in other newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times.[8] In 2008, he became the lead writer for The Baltimore Sun TV blog, Z on TV.[9] He has written pieces for the American Journalism Review.[10] [11] [12] [13] In 2017, he began writing articles for the Telegraph-Journal.[14]

Zurawik worked for the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel in the 1970s and the Detroit Free Press in the late-'70-s-early 80s, where he was a feature writer and TV critic.

Zurawik has been a guest on the CNN public affairs talk show Reliable Sources,[15] [16] [17] [18] [19] and has also appeared on Fox News shows such as "Fox & Friends," "The O’Reilly Factor" and "On the Record with Greta Van Susteren."[20]

In addition to his position with the Baltimore Sun, Zurawik is a communications and media studies assistant professor at Goucher College in Towson, Maryland.[21]

He is also an editor for SAGE Publications.[22]

Books

Zurawik is the author of The Jews of Prime Time (2003). After that book was published, Zurawik reported that he was working on a biography of Gertrude Berg based on records stored at Syracuse University.[23]

Awards and honors

In 2015, Zurawik won the National Press Club's Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism in print.[24]

Also in 2015, he was named a finalist in the Best Commentary category of the Mirror Awards, presented by Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications.[25]

In 2016, he took home a first-place Excellence-in-Features award from the Society for Features Journalism in the Blog Portfolio category.[26]

In 2017, he won another Arthur Rowse Award for press criticism, a National Press Club award.

In June 2017, he was given a third-place Arts & Entertainment award by the Society for Features Journalism.[27]

In 2018, he won the Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism from Penn State University.[28]

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Family Search. 3 November 2023.
  2. Web site: David Zurawik. https://web.archive.org/web/20160127201055/http://www.latimes.com/balnews-david-zurawik-20130507-staff.html. dead. 2016-01-27. Sun. Baltimore. Los Angeles Times. 2017-12-29.
  3. Web site: Allison . Benedik . Finally, TV Jews who act Jewish . Chicago Tribune. May 2, 2004 .
  4. News: Sun columnist David Zurawik wins National Press Club Award. Jedra. Christina. baltimoresun.com. 2017-12-29. en-US.
  5. Web site: The Jews of prime time: Ethnicity, self-censorship and assimilation in network television, 1949–1999. Zurawik. David L.. November 2000. en. ProQuest. 2018-12-03. subscription .
  6. News: Zurawik. David. TV images of Washington that once inspired now a source of fear and pain. Baltimore Sun. January 19, 2021. January 19, 2021.
  7. News: Tribune Company Biography . https://web.archive.org/web/20150910134233/http://bio.tribune.com/davidzurawik . 2015-09-10.
  8. Web site: David Zurawik's television coverage. https://web.archive.org/web/20171230115114/http://www.latimes.com/bal-zurawik-storygallery.html?page=5. dead. 2017-12-30. David. Zurawik. LA Times.
  9. http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/tv/z-on-tv-blog/ "Z on TV", The Baltimore Sun
  10. Web site: Saving CBS News. Zurawik. David. 1997. ajrarchive.org. 2017-12-29.
  11. Zurawik. David. Stoehr. Christina. 1993-04-01. Money changes everything. American Journalism Review. en. 15. 3.
  12. Zurawik. David. Stoehr. Christina. 1994-11-01. Eclipsing the nightly news. American Journalism Review. en. 16. 9.
  13. Stoehr. Chris. Zurawik. David. 1998-05-01. Rather remarkable. American Journalism Review. en. 20. 4.
  14. News: David Zurawik. 2017-12-29. en.
  15. Web site: CNN.com - Transcripts. transcripts.cnn.com. 3 November 2023.
  16. Web site: Media Critic David Zurawik: 'Sickened By' Bill O'Reilly 'Exploiting the Fissures' In Our Society. www.mediaite.com. 12 November 2017. en. 2017-12-29.
  17. News: Baltimore Sun's David Zurawik: Bannon "weaponizing" Breitbart "goes against everything I believe about journalism". 2017-08-27. Media Matters for America. 2017-12-29. en.
  18. News: Sunday shows. POLITICO. 2017-12-29.
  19. News: Why journalists are asking 'Is Trump racist?'. WTHI News. 2018-01-16. en. 2018-01-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20180117012058/http://www.wthitv.com/content/national/469344973.html. dead.
  20. News: David Zurawik Discusses 'Reckless' Fox & Friends. 2017-12-29. en-US.
  21. Web site: David Zurawik Wins National Press Club Award - Goucher College. Goucher College.
  22. Web site: Zurawik, David SAGE Publications Inc. us.sagepub.com. 2017-12-29.
  23. News: 2 Books Explore Curious Absence of Jewish Characters From TV Series in the 1950s and '60s. McLemee. Scott. 2003-06-06. The Chronicle of Higher Education. 2018-12-03. subscription .
  24. Web site: Wall Street Journal, Seattle Times win awards in National Press Club journalism contest. 26 June 2015. National Press Club.
  25. Web site: The Sun wins Newspaper of the year from MDDC. Jeff. Barker. 4 May 2015 .
  26. Web site: Baltimore Sun's features coverage wins 6 awards from Society for Features Journalism. Brittany. Britto. 7 June 2016 .
  27. Web site: The Baltimore Sun wins eight awards from the Society for Features Journalism. Brittany. Britto.
  28. Web site: Baltimore Sun's David Zurawik wins Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism. Christina. Tkacik. 23 March 2018 .

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