David Lee Zurawik (born October 26, 1949) is an American journalist, author, 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 ''

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''. Zurawik is the author of '' The Jews of Prime Time''.

Early life and education

Zurawik was born to a Jewish family 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. 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.

Career

After completing graduate school, Zurawik first worked as a speech writer and press secretary for Wisconsin's Democratic lieutenant governor. He then worked as a reporter and critic for the ''

'' before joining '' The Baltimore Sun'' in 1989 as its television critic. His syndicated column runs in other newspapers, including the '' Los Angeles Times''. In 2008, he became the lead writer for ''The Baltimore Sun'' TV blog, Z on TV. He has written pieces for the '' American Journalism Review''. In 2017, he began writing articles for the ''

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''. 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'', and has also appeared on Fox News shows such as " Fox & Friends," " The O’Reilly Factor" and " On the Record with Greta Van Susteren." In addition to his position with the ''Baltimore Sun'', Zurawik is a communications and media studies assistant professor at Goucher College in Towson, Maryland. He is also an editor for

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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

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Awards and honors

In 2015, Zurawik won the

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's Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism in print. Also in 2015, he was named a finalist in the Best Commentary category of the

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, presented by

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. In 2016, he took home a first-place Excellence-in-Features award from the Society for Features Journalism in the Blog Portfolio category. 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. In 2018, he won the Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism from Penn State University

Personal life

Zurawik lives in

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and has two brothers and a sister.

References

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