George Polk Awards

George Polk Awards

The George Polk Awards are a series of American journalism awards issued annually by Long Island University in Brooklyn. They were established in 1949 to remember George Polk, a CBS correspondent slain covering the Greek civil war. They are awarded in categories, which change annually and may include:

* Foreign Reporting
* Radio Reporting
* Photojournalism
* Economics Reporting
* Business Reporting
* Labor Reporting
* Legal Reporting
* National Reporting
* Internet Reporting
* Magazine Reporting
* State Reporting
* Education Reporting
* Local Reporting
* Television Reporting

In addition, the George Polk Career Award is given in recognition of an individual's lifelong achievements.

Recipients of the Polk Award include Eddie Adams, Christiane Amanpour (multiple winner), James Baldwin, Erik Barnouw, Donald Bartlett (multiple winner), Larry Bensky, Ed Bradley, Jimmy Breslin, Robert Brustein, Walter Cronkite, Thomas Friedman, Fred Friendly, Anne Garrels, Henry Louis Gates, Amy Goodman, Adam Gopnik, Michael R. Gordon, Philip Gourevitch, Roy Gutman, David Halberstam, Seymour Hersh (multiple winner), Peter Jennings, Pauline Kael, Matthew Kauffman, Ted Koppel, Charles Kuralt, Joseph Lelyveld (multiple winner), Norman Mailer, Mary Ellen Mark, Jim McKay, Chris Mortensen, Bill Moyers (multiple winner), Edward R. Murrow, Lisa Myers, Allan Nairn, John Bertram Oakes (multiple winner), Gayle Reaves, Morley Safer, Harrison Salisbury, Diane Sawyer, Daniel Schorr, William Shawn, Susan Sontag, James Steele (multiple winner), Joe Stephens (three-time winner), I.F. Stone, Studs Terkel, and Nina Totenberg.

Josh Marshall's blog, Talking Points Memo, was the first blog to receive the Polk Award in 2008 for their reporting on the US Attorney Scandal. [http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003712141]

External links

* [http://www.brooklyn.liu.edu/polk/press/2006.html George Polk Awards website]


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