Michael Mroziak
Managing Editor, BTPM NPRMichael Mroziak is an experienced, award-winning reporter whose career includes work in broadcast and print media. When he rejoined Buffalo Toronto Public Media in September 2025 as its Managing Editor, it was a return to familiar settings. His previous run at BTPM NPR was as a news reporter from 2015 to 2022.
A 1988 graduate of Grand Island High School and 1992 graduate of Ithaca College, Michael began his broadcasting career with the former WHLD-AM in Niagara Falls/Grand Island and then joined WBEN-AM (1992-2000), after which he worked for the former WNED-AM (2000-2003) and later as a producer for WIVB-TV (2006-2008). After spending a brief period of time in public relations and marketing, Michael returned to news media in September 2010, joining WBFO as a part-time reporter in its final year and a half at the University at Buffalo.
He also worked for two years as the sports editor for the Niagara Gazette (2013-2015) and currently serves as one of the game commentators for the Buffalo Jr. Sabres (Ontario Junior Hockey League) for their webcasts. His past sports media experience also includes two seasons with the former Niagara Power summer collegiate baseball club, serving as its play-by-play commentator in 2019, and then its public address announcer in 2021.
Outside of the newsroom, Michael is a casual sports enthusiast who enjoys pickup hockey on weekend mornings. He has participated since 2019 in the annual 11 Day Power Play Community Shifts, which raises funds for cancer research and related programs. He's a fan of British comedies. He also proudly prepares the family's homemade Christmas and Easter pierogi each season.
Michael resides in Williamsville with his wife, two daughters, and rescued dogs and cat.
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Congressman Tim Kennedy accuses President Trump of playing politics with people’s food insecurity in his administration’s challenge of a federal court ruling to free up full SNAP funding. -
They are the closest Major League Baseball team to Buffalo, and it has a direct relationship with Buffalo’s hometown Bisons. But for years the Toronto Blue Jays were unable to directly market itself to Western New York baseball fans. That's changing. -
Every player who started for the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series Monday night previously played at least one game for the Buffalo Bisons. It is the latest of highs in a special relationship between two baseball clubs dating back 12 years. -
A traveling campaign rolled into Buffalo urging New York State leaders to honor the HALT Act, which limits solitary confinement. It came on the day verdicts were announced in the prison death of Robert Brooks. -
For thousands of individuals who rely on Medicare Advantage, one of WNY’s larger health insurance providers won't include Roswell Park among its in-network coverage next year. But it's not the only one. -
A Taiwanese company has agreed to purchase the former Sumitomo Rubber plant at 10 Sheridan Drive in the Town of Tonawanda, creating up to 250 jobs by early next year. -
Buffalo Mayor Christopher Scanlon has announced an agreement to acquire land for a future Department of Public Works campus. The Common Council must now approve the deal. -
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has ordered Great Lakes Cheese to pay $475,000 for its discharges into Ischua Creek near Franklinville, which touched off a large fish and animal die-off and polluted the waterway this past summer. -
A federal judge recommends a 1954 easement obtained by New York State to build a portion of the Thruway through the Seneca Nation’s Cattaraugus Territory be voided, because it violated federal law. -
The chairmen of the Erie County Republican Committee and Conservative Party, respectively, put the blame directly on Senator Charles Schumer for the federal government shutdown, which entered its third day Friday. They say the New York Democrat and Senator Minority Leader is putting politics in front of policy, to protect himself from a possible primary challenge.
