Lee Zurik Biography
Lee Zurik is an American Award-winning journalist working for KTRE9 as an investigative reporter. He joined the station in November 2009.
Lee Zurik Age / Birthday
Zurik is 49 years old as of 2023. He was born in 1974 in New Orleans in the United States. He manages to keep information regarding his birth date and month away from the limelight. However, we will update you once the information is out to the public.
Lee Zurik Height / Measurements
Zurik is of average body stature and stands at an approximate height of 6 feet 9 inches.
Lee Zurik’s Wife
Zurik is married to his beautiful wife Jenny(Jennifer). He is five years older than his wife and they both live in New Orleans with their two daughters. He manages to keep information regarding his marriage private. However, we will update information about his marriage once it’s available.
Lee Zurik Kids / Children
Zurik and Jenny are blessed with two daughters, Eleonore, born on November 22, 2006, and Megan born in April 2010. He manages to keep information regarding his kids away from the limelight. However, we will update this information about his children once it’s available.
Lee Zurik Family / Relatives
Zurik grew up to be a family-oriented person. His mom always says that Lee and his father are similar in too many ways. He manages to keep information regarding his parents away from the limelight. Additionally, he shares no information regarding whether he has any siblings or not. We will update this information once it’s available.
Lee Zurik Career
Zurik works for KTRE9 as an investigative reporter. He is the most honored investigative reporter in New Orleans. Since 2009 he has been exposing and reporting impactful stories on WVUE. He delivers unprecedented accountability of private citizens, government officials, and corporations.
Zurik has been celebrated with journalism’s top honors including three Alfred I. duPont Silver Batons, the Investigative Reporters and Editors Medal, two George Foster Peabody Awards, and twelve National Edward R. Murrow Awards.
Moreover, he serves as Vice President of Investigations at Gray Television. He oversees Gray Television’s National Investigative Team InvestigateTV in the role of WVUE’s parent company. Zurik graduated from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications.
Lee Zurik Salary
Zurik receives an annual income ranging between $30,000 and $90,000.
Lee Zurik Net Worth
Through Zurik’s career as an investigative reporter, he has been able to accumulate a net worth that ranges between $1 Million and $ 5 Million.
Lee Zurik Field Of Dreams
It is an investigation carried out by The Athletic New Orleans in collaboration with FOX 8 News. After the money raised for the development of the 9th Ward Field of Dreams, a football stadium, could not be accounted for the investigations followed. It was found that behind years of fundraising the stadium was still a field of dreams through the investigation.
Lee Zurik Wesley Bishop
Zurik has coached several investigations concerning Wesley Bishop, who is a retired state senator. Via the investigations, it was found that Wesley’s four units that were declared to have been occupied didn’t have tenants. While he was working in Baton Louge it was found that he took a sick leave for 122 days. Following the court proceedings, Wesley pleaded guilty to making the wrong investigations of a federal agency.
Lee Zurik Announcement | Nancy Parker
During a break in programming about the demise of Nancy Parker following an airplane crash in August 2019 Zurik made an announcement. Since Nancy was his co-worker he made the announcement while choking back tears. She passed away while reporting a feature story about pilot Franklin J.P. Augustus.
Lee Zurik Eyebrows
In 2013 during an interview with Chris Rose, he was asked whether his eyebrows are real. Zurik’s co-worker, Greg Adaline gave him a shout-out in 2016 as he had his eyebrows threaded for the first time. One day he went ahead to comment that people should stop talking about his eyebrows.
Lee Zurik KTRE9
Zurik works at KTRE9 where he works with his fellow colleagues who are anchors, reporters, and meteorologists and they include;
- Avery Gorman
- Donna McCollum
- Jesse Schroeder
- Brad Hlozek
Lee Zurik Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
Zurik is active on his social media accounts. He has about 15k followers on his Facebook Page and about 19.5k followers on his Twitter account.