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George Polk Awards

American journalism awards

Summary

American journalism awards

Field	Value
name	George Polk Awards in Journalism
image	George_Polk_Awards_Logo_1.gif
imagesize	200px
awarded_for	To honor excellence in print and broadcast journalism
presenter	Long Island University
country	United States
year	1949
website

The George Polk Awards in Journalism are a series of American journalism awards presented annually by Long Island University in New York in the United States. A writer for Idea Lab, a group blog hosted on the website of PBS, described the award as "one of only a couple of journalism prizes that means anything". The award is described as follows:

History

20th century

The awards were established in 1949, in memory of George Polk, a CBS News correspondent who was murdered in March 1948 while covering the Greek Civil War.

21st century

In 2008, Josh Marshall's blog, Talking Points Memo, was the first blog to receive the Polk Award in recognition of its reporting on the 2006 U.S. attorneys dismissal scandal.

In 2009, John Darnton, a former editor with The New York Times, was named curator of the George Polk Awards.

In 2024, The New York Times was awarded three Polk Awards for the newspaper's "unsurpassed coverage of the war between Israel and Hamas". Steven Thrasher criticized the issuance of the awards to The New York Times, saying that the newspaper's article, "Screams Without Words", had been discredited.

List of award recipients

Main article: List of George Polk Award winners

Award categories

Foreign reporting
Radio reporting
Photojournalism
Economics reporting
Business reporting
Labor reporting
Legal reporting
National reporting
Internet reporting
Magazine reporting
Military reporting
State reporting
Education reporting
Local reporting
Television reporting
Documentary Film (introduced in 2014) In addition, the George Polk Career Award is given in recognition of an individual's lifelong achievements.

References

Gillmor, Dan. (February 24, 2010). "Faint Praise for Citizen Journalism Misses Point".
Pengelly, Martin. (17 February 2014). "Journalists who broke NSA story in Guardian receive George Polk Awards". [[The Guardian]].
Bouchard, Kelley. (18 February 2013). "Reporter Colin Woodard earns prestigious award". [[Portland Press Herald]].
(19 February 2014). "Glenn Greenwald '94 to receive George Polk Award for national security reporting". New York University School of Law.
"The George Polk Awards".
Strupp, Joe. (February 19, 2008). "Slain Editor Bailey Among George Polk Award Winners".
(April 16, 2009). "Former Times Editor Will Oversee Polk Awards". The New York Times.
(21 February 2017). "Long Island University Announces 68th Annual George Polk Awards in Journalism". Long Island University.
(March 2, 2024). "New York Times Under Fire For "Racially Targeted Witch Hunt" Into Leaks Over Israel Coverage".
Katie Robertson. (19 February 2024). "The New York Times Wins 3 Polk Awards".
(February 27, 2024). "As Journalists Are Murdered in Gaza Their Counterparts Lose Jobs in America".

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