Lee Zurik, SVP Strategy and Innovation, Gray Media

Lee Zurik’s hard-hitting investigations continue to effect change and garner respect. His work has been recognized with journalism’s top awards: in total, he has received two Peabody Awards, three Columbia-duPont Silver Batons, twelve National Edward R. Murrow Awards, the IRE Medal, six IRE Certificates, and twelve Sigma Delta Chi Awards. He is currently SVP of strategy and innovation. Previously, he was vice president of investigations for Gray Television. In that role, Zurik oversees Gray’s national investigative team as well as an investigative show that airs on 113 Gray stations six days a week. In addition, Zurik is the evening news anchor and chief investigative reporter at WVUE-TV in New Orleans.