Wisconsin media veteran and educator Mark Zoromski will chair the WBA Education Committee.
The announcement comes after the recent retirement of long time Education Committee Chair Ken Beno.
Zoromski has 20 years of experience at three Wisconsin television stations and 25 years in higher education. He started in the production department at WEAU-TV in Eau Claire, then became the 6 and 10 p.m. newscast producer.
After a brief stop producing the 10 p.m. newscast at WLUK-TV in Green Bay, Zoromski moved to WITI-TV in Milwaukee. He rose from producer to executive news producer, acting news director, then director of news planning. He produced all special event coverage, including the Dahmer trial, elections, presidential visits, and national political conventions, winning more than 50 awards for journalistic excellence during his time at the station.
Zoromski moved to higher education in 1997, first at UW-Madison, then 20 years leading the broadcast journalism curriculum at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He created UWM PantherVision, a class-based weekly television newscast, as well as UWM PantherCast, a weekly radio newscast, and formed the independent Broadcast Club at UWM, which produced two half hour weekly television shows. His students won nearly 250 journalism awards, highlighted by UWM PantherVision becoming the first ever collegiate news operation to win a national Edward R. Murrow Award in a large-market professional division. Zoromski was awarded the UWM Alumni Association’s Excellence in Teaching Award in 2005.
In 2016, Zoromski relocated to Marquette University as Director of Student Media and journalism faculty member, serving as advisor to the Marquette Wire, a comprehensive student media organization with 240 students. The Wire consists of the Marquette Tribune (weekly student newspaper in print and online), the Marquette Journal (student magazine published once a semester in print and online), MUTV (student television station with three live programs each week), MUR (student radio station on air 24/7), and student advertising.
His students won 500 national, regional, and state awards for journalistic excellence in six years, with the Marquette Wire being named one of the top five student media organizations in the country by the College Media Association, honored alongside some giants in the student media world: Indiana University, Lehigh University, Pepperdine University, and UCLA. Zoromski received the Marquette Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence in 2019.
Zoromski is a 2012 inductee of the National Television Arts and Sciences Silver Circle and was named to the Milwaukee Press Club Hall of Fame in 2015.
The WBA Education Committee oversees outreach and education for broadcasting students, which includes the Wisconsin Broadcasters Student Forum at Lambeau Field and the WBA Student Awards for Excellence.
