Jerry Zremski

A professional journalist since 1982, Jerry Zremski joined The Buffalo News in 1984 as a business
reporter and has been a Washington reporter for the News since 1989. He focuses his coverage on
federal issues that are important to readers in Buffalo, as well as the Western New York House
delegation and New York’s two senators.

Zremski served as Washington bureau chief of The Buffalo News between January 2007 and July 2022,
and now serves as a part-time enterprise reporter for the News in Washington.

Awards and honors Zremski received for his reporting include:
- The National Press Club’s Washington Regional Reporting Award in 2018 for his coverage of the
insider trading scandal involving Rep. Chris Collins. Zremski’s reporting on Collins’ stock
investments was cited in the federal criminal indictment against Collins, which prompted his
guilty plea and subsequent imprisonment.
- The Washington Press Club Foundation’s David Lynch Memorial Award for Excellence in
Congressional Reporting in 2017 for Zremski’s coverage of Collins.
- The Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi award for non-deadline reporting in
2017 for “From Burma to Buffalo,” a series that traced the journey of refugees from Myanmar
who moved to the United States.
- Several awards in connection with his reporting on the 2009 crash of Continental Connection
Flight 3407.
- A Nieman fellowship at Harvard University in the 1999-2000 school year.

In July 2022, Zremski became a lecturer and director of the new Local News Network at the Philip Merrill
College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. The Local News Network’s mission is to enlist
student journalists in improving local news reporting. LNN’s student journalists produce in-depth
projects that no local news organization could produce on its own, such as a statewide school board
election voter guide and a county-by-county analysis of the childcare shortage in the state. Previously
an adjunct instructor at the university, Zremski has received three Philip Merrill Presidential Scholars
Program Faculty Mentor Awards as well as the 2024 Provost’s Do Good Innovator Award.
Zremski is a member of the Gridiron Club, one of Washington’s oldest journalism organizations, and he
writes many of the satirical songs performed at the Club’s dinners. Zremski served as president of the
National Press Club in 2007, where he interviewed speakers ranging from First Lady Laura Bush to
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Zremski also served as president of the Regional Reporters
Association in 1997.

A native of Elkland, Pennsylvania, and current resident of Washington, D.C., Zremski earned a bachelor’s
degree in newspaper journalism from Syracuse University in 1982. He also holds a master’s degree in
political science from American University.