George Polk Awards
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The George Polk Awards are a series of prestigious American journalism awards issued annually by Long Island University in New York City. They were established in 1949 to memorialize George Polk, a CBS correspondent slain covering the Greek civil war. They are awarded in the following categories
- Foreign Reporting
- Radio Reporting
- Photojournalism
- Economics Reporting
- Business Reporting
- Labor 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.
Notable recipients of the Polk Award include Eddie Adams, Christiane Amanpour (multiple winner), James Baldwin, Erik Barnouw, Donald Bartlett (multiple winner), Ed Bradley, Jimmy Breslin, Walter Cronkite, Thomas Friedman, Fred Friendly, Anne Garrels, Henry Louis Gates, Amy Goodman, Adam Gopnik, Roy Gutman, David Halberstam, Seymour Hersh (multiple winner), Peter Jennings, Pauline Kael, Ted Koppel, Charles Kuralt, Joseph Lelyveld (multiple winner), Norman Mailer, Mary Ellen Mark, Chris Mortensen, Bill Moyers (multiple winner), Edward R. Murrow, John Bertram Oakes (multiple winner), Morley Safer, Harrison Salisbury, Diane Sawyer, Daniel Schorr, William Shawn, Susan Sontag, James Steele (multiple winner), I.F. Stone, Studs Terkel, and Nina Totenberg.
