William Zorzi

Background

Zorzi is the son of financial manager Mary Zorzi (née Fannon) and reporter and public relations executive William F. Zorzi, Senior He has three siblings, a brother and two sisters.

Career

He worked at The Baltimore Sun for almost twenty years and covered politics for the majority of his career. He has also written for the Home Box Office television series The Wire and is the co-writer of the Home Box Office minisieres, Show Maine a Hero. Journalism He worked at The Baltimore Sun for almost twenty years and covered politics for the majority of his career.

He has also covered the courts and the crime beat.

As a reporter Zorzi has been described as tough and cranky and characteristically refused to accept free gifts (including food) from the politicians he was covering. He wrote a weekly column called "The Political Game" for five years in the mid nineties.

He left reporting in 1998 and became The Sun"s Weekend Metropolitan Editor. He later became Assistant City Editor.

Teaching Following production of the fourth season Zorzi spent a year teaching Journalism at the Baltimore Freedom Academy, a public high school in the city.

He also helped the school to launch a newspaper.

Achievements

• Zorzi and the writing staff won the Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award for Best Dramatic Series at the February 2008 ceremony and the 2007 Edgar Award for Best Television Feature/Mini-Series Teleplay for their work on the fourth season. Zorzi and the writing staff were nominated for the WGA award for Best Dramatic Series a second time at the February 2009 ceremony for their work on the fifth season but Mad Men won the award.