William F. Zorzi

William Zorzi
Born	William F. Zorzi Jr. 1954 (age 62–63)
Nationality	American
Occupation	Political reporter Television Writer
Notable work	The Wire Show Me a Hero

William "Bill" F. Zorzi Jr. (born 1954) is an American journalist and screenwriter. 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 HBO television series The Wire and is the co-writer of the HBO minisieres, Show Me a Hero.

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

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.

David Simon said that producer Gail Mutrux, a producer Simon knew from working with her on Homicide, had sent him a copy of Belkin's book. In 2001, Simon sent Zorzi, who at that time was assistant city editor at The Baltimore Sun, a copy of the book, which he was taking to HBO as a potential project. In 2002, Zorzi quit his job at The Sun and began working on what became a long-term project.

The story was in development for over a decade, with co-writer Zorzi working on the passion project during that time, even as he and Simon were working on The Wire..HBO had an option on the book, but it spent years in script re-writes with Zorzi as Simon and Zorzi were both busy working on other projects.

Zorzi worked for 13 years on the passion project that eventually became the 2015 HBO miniseries, Show Me a Hero, which he created with David Simon. The project was to be "about the volatile events surrounding a federal public housing desegregation case in Yonkers, NY."

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