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Jerry Zremski

President of the National Press Club in Washington and Washington bureau chief of The Buffalo News, was born and raised in Elkland, PA., the grandchild of four Poles. After graduating from Elkland High School, he earned a bachelor's degree in newspaper journalism in 1982 at Syracuse University, where he also studied Polish.

Most of Zremski's professional life has been spent in the Washington bureau of the News (which he joined in 1989), partly as national correspondent. His recent work has included in-depth stories about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign as well as coverage of the controversial firing of eight US attorneys. At other times he has been an embedded correspondent during the Iraq war, has covered such varied subjects as the Buffalo congressional delegation and the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, and has written about changes in the world economy and how they impact Buffalo, as well as about Polish expatriates in that city. In 1999-2000 he took time off to spend an academic year as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard.

Zremski serves as an adjunct professor of journalism at the University of Maryland. In 1998 he spent several weeks in Nigeria teaching journalists there how to cover the nation's first democratic elections in fifteen years; and he has lectured at Case Western Reserve University, the University of Minnesota, and George Washington University.

His many honors include the Best in the Business Breaking News award from the Society of American Business Writers and Editors in 2002, as well as the New York State Publishers Association Award for political reporting in 1998.

He is the only son of Genevieve Zremski of McLean, Va., and the late Leo J. Zremski.

From: "2007 Annual Awards Dinner Program" National Polish Center; Washington, DC; May 5, 2007

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