| George Polk Awards in Journalism | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | To honor excellence in print and broadcast journalism |
| Presented by | Long Island University |
| Country | United States |
| First awarded | 1948 |
| Official website | http://www.liu.edu/polk/ |
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.
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The George Polk Awards were established in 1948 in memory of George Polk, a CBS correspondent who was killed covering the Greek Civil War. In 2009, John Darnton was named curator of the George Polk Awards.[1]
Partial list
Recipients of the George Polk Awards include: Eddie Adams, Christiane Amanpour (multiple winner), Roger Angell, James Baldwin, Red Barber, Erik Barnouw, Donald L. Barlett (multiple winner), Richard Behar (multiple winner), Larry Bensky, Ed Bradley, Jimmy Breslin, Joel Brinkley, Robert Brustein, Walter Cronkite, William O. Douglas, Stephen Evans, Leila Fadel, Stefan Forbes, Thomas Friedman, Fred Friendly, Anne Garrels, Henry Louis Gates, Amy Goodman, Adam Gopnik, Michael R. Gordon, Philip Gourevitch, Alan Cowell, Roy Gutman, David Halberstam, Michael Hastings, Seymour Hersh (multiple winner), Peter Jennings, Pauline Kael, Matthew Kauffman, Murray Kempton, Ronald Kessler (multiple winner), John Kifner (multiple winner), Ted Koppel, Joshua Kors, Charles Kuralt, Joseph Lelyveld (multiple winner), Norman Mailer, Mary Ellen Mark, Jim McKay, Carey McWilliams, Chris Mortensen, Bill Moyers (multiple winner), Edward R. Murrow, Lisa Myers, Allan Nairn, Jack Newfield, John Bertram Oakes (multiple winner), Gayle Reaves, James Reston, Leo Rosten, Morley Safer, Harrison Salisbury, Diane Sawyer, Daniel Schorr, George Seldes, Eric Sevareid, William Shawn, William Shirer, Howard K. Smith, Red Smith, Edward Sorel, Susan Sontag, James Steele (multiple winner), Tom Murphy, Joe Stephens (three-time winner), I. F. Stone, Studs Terkel, Nina Totenberg, and the unknown filmmakers who filed the death of Death of Neda Agha-Soltan.
In addition, the George Polk Career Award is given in recognition of an individual's lifelong achievements.
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. [2]