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David Zurawik | |
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Born | David Lee Zurawik October 26, 1949 [1] |
Occupation(s) | Journalist, writer, media critic |
Academic background | |
Education | University of Wisconsin–Madison (MA) University of Maryland, College Park (PhD) |
Doctoral advisor | Lawrence E. Mintz |
Academic work | |
Institutions | 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 a 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 .
Zurawik was born to a Jewish family [3] [4] 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. [5] 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. [6]
After completing graduate school,Zurawik first worked as a speech writer and press secretary for Wisconsin's Democratic lieutenant governor. [7] He then worked as a reporter and critic for the Dallas Times Herald before joining The Baltimore Sun in 1989 as its television critic. [8] His syndicated column runs in other newspapers,including the Los Angeles Times . [9] In 2008,he became the lead writer for The Baltimore Sun TV blog,Z on TV. [10] He has written pieces for the American Journalism Review . [11] [12] [13] [14] In 2017,he began writing articles for the Telegraph-Journal . [15]
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, [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] and has also appeared on Fox News shows such as "Fox &Friends," "The O’Reilly Factor" and "On the Record with Greta Van Susteren." [21]
In addition to his position with the Baltimore Sun,Zurawik is a communications and media studies assistant professor at Goucher College in Towson,Maryland. [22]
He is also an editor for SAGE Publications. [23]
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. [3]
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. [5]
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]
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