Zenon Zawada, assigned to Kyiv Press Bureau, joins The Weekly staff (05/22/05)

Zenon Zawada, assigned to Kyiv Press Bureau, joins The Weekly staff

PARSIPPANY, N.J. - Zenon Adrian Zawada, an experienced journalist who hails from New York, has officially joined the editorial staff of The Ukrainian Weekly. Mr. Zawada began working at The Weekly's Kyiv Press Bureau on February 16 - a little more than three weeks after the inauguration of President Viktor Yushchenko.

During his first week on the job Mr. Zawada wrote about the Yushchenko administration's first crisis, when Justice Minister Roman Zvarych threatened to resign over a ban on the re-export of oil (a business in which his wife Svitlana is involved) and about opposition within Ukraine to the country's membership in NATO.

Since then he has covered a variety of stories, ranging from new developments in the Gongadze case and Russia-Ukraine relations under the new Yushchenko administration, to the struggle of veterans of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) for recognition by the Ukrainian government and the imbroglio over Minister Zvarych's academic credentials.

Mr. Zawada was born on November 16, 1976, in Queens, N.Y. He is the son of Jan Zawada of Pluty, Poland, and the late Liliana Zawada (née Andruszkiw) of Manhattan.

He was an active member of Plast Ukrainian Youth Organization in New York City. He graduated from the Bronx High School of Science as a member of the Arista National Honors Society and was a graduate of the School of Ukrainian Studies in New York.

From September through December 1997, Mr. Zawada spent a semester studying at Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv. During this time he interned with The Ukrainian Weekly's Kyiv Press Bureau and wrote several articles for The Weekly.

Also in 1997, Mr. Zawada, then a senior at American University in Washington, was awarded the Michael Terech Scholarship, which was founded in November 1995 by the Reuters news service as a tribute to its employee, the late Mr. Terech, and his work with the Ukrainian Institute of America. The scholarship is for undergraduate-level, U.S.-based journalism students of Ukrainian heritage.

While at American University Mr. Zawada interned with several Washington-area newspapers, including The Northwest Current, The Fairfax Journal and the Washington CityPaper. During the summer of 1997 he interned at the Brooklyn bureau of the New York Daily News.

Mr. Zawada graduated from American University in May 1998 with a B.A. in international studies; he minored in communication.

In June 2001 Mr. Zawada traveled to Kyiv and Lviv to write about Pope John Paul II's historic visit to Ukraine. His articles were published in the National Catholic Register, Catholic News Service and The Weekly.

Articles by Mr. Zawada were published in The Weekly also in 1998 and 2002.

Mr. Zawada has worked as a business reporter at The Ledger in Lakeland, Fla., and at the Winston-Salem Journal in North Carolina. Prior to that he was assistant business editor at The Gaston Gazette (Gastonia, N.C.), an economics intern at Bloomberg News (Washington) and an economics reporter at Futures World News (Washington).

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