Jerry Zremski

CCN Faculty Champion

University of Maryland - College Park, MD

Affiliated Department(s)

Center for Community News

BIO

University of Maryland - College Park, MD

Program Summary: Grow the “Maryland Commons,” a statewide effort to collect state data, store and standardize it and populate it initially with county-level education spending for student reported stories and state journalists.

Jerry Zremski spent 40 years as a daily news reporter before joining the University of Maryland last July to create its Local News Network. His reporting for The Buffalo News won numerous awards over the years, and he was a Nieman fellow at Harvard University in 1999-2000. In addition, in 2007 he served as president of the National Press Club.

Bio

University of Maryland - College Park, MD

Program Summary: Grow the “Maryland Commons,” a statewide effort to collect state data, store and standardize it and populate it initially with county-level education spending for student reported stories and state journalists.

Jerry Zremski spent 40 years as a daily news reporter before joining the University of Maryland last July to create its Local News Network. His reporting for The Buffalo News won numerous awards over the years, and he was a Nieman fellow at Harvard University in 1999-2000. In addition, in 2007 he served as president of the National Press Club.