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 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
- 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), 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, Matthew Kauffman, Ted Koppel, Charles Kuralt, Joseph Lelyveld (multiple winner), Norman Mailer, Mary Ellen Mark, Chris Mortensen, Bill Moyers (multiple winner), Edward R. Murrow, Lisa Myers, 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.
