George Polk Award
The George Polk Award is a prestigious American journalism award that is presented annually by the Brooklyn campus of Long Island University in many investigative reporting categories. It was donated in 1948 in memory of George Polk , a CBS - correspondents , of a victim of the Greek civil war was.
Divisions
The divisions can be represented differently each year:
- Foreign Correspondent ("Foreign Reporting")
- Radio reporting ("Radio Reporting")
- Photojournalist ("Photojournalism")
- Economic reporting ("Economics Reporting")
- Company reporting ("Business Reporting")
- Working world report ("Labor Reporting")
- Justice reporting ("Legal Reporting")
- National reporting
- Internet reporting
- Magazine reporting
- State reporting
- Education reporting
- Local reporting
- Television reporting
There is also the George Polk Career Award for the recognition of the life's work of investigative journalists.
Award winners (selection)
The recipients of the "Polk Award" included Eddie Adams , Christiane Amanpour (multiple winner), Dickey Chapelle , James Baldwin , Erik Barnouw , Donald Bartlett (multiple winner), Larry Bensky , Ed Bradley , Jimmy Breslin , Robert Brustein , Walter Cronkite , Kurt Eichenwald (multiple winner), Thomas Friedman , Fred Friendly , Anne Garrels , Henry Louis Gates , Amy Goodman , Adam Gopnik , Michael R. Gordon , Philip Gourevitch , Roy Gutman , David Halberstam , Oron J. Hale , Nikole Hannah-Jones , Seymour Hersh (multiple winner), Peter Jennings , Pauline Kael , Matthew Kauffman , Ted Koppel , Charles Kuralt , Joseph Lelyveld (multiple winner), Catherine Leroy , 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), Robert Parry , Gayle Reaves , Morley Safer , Harrison Salisbury , Diane Sawyer , Jeremy Scahill (multiple winner), Danie l Schorr , George Seldes , William Shawn , Susan Sontag , James Steele (multiple winner), Joe Stephens (multiple winner), IF Stone , Studs Terkel , and Nina Totenberg .
In 1998 Democracy Now won the award for best radio report.
The National Security Archive was awarded a George Polk Prize in 2000.
Josh Marshall's blog "Talking Points Memo" was the first weblog to receive a "Polk Award". He got it in 2008 for the investigative report on the "US Attorney Scandal". The party-politically motivated dismissal of eight of the 93 federal attorneys in 2006 led to the resignation of the US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in August 2007. Without Marshall's research, the media would not have become aware, said the jurors. The selection committee recognized the work of citizen journalists with the award of a prize in the 2009 new category "Videography": the prize went to a 37-second video whose creator is unknown and which was uploaded to YouTube by others. The video shows the death of a protester during protests after the 2009 presidential election in Iran .
Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras were two of the 30 award winners from a total of 15 media that were recognized for their work in 13 categories in 2013.
Web links
- George Polk Awards . Long Island University,accessed April 10, 2014.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Blogger receives journalist award . Neue Zürcher Zeitung , February 27, 2008, accessed April 10, 2014 .
- ↑ editorandpublisher.com ( Memento of the original dated February 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Honoring Citizen Journalists . New York Times , February 21, 2010, accessed April 4, 2016 .
- ^ LIU Announces 2013 Georg Polk Awards in Journalism
