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".

History

The awards were established in 1949 in memory of George Polk, a '' CBS'' correspondent who was murdered in 1948 while covering the

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(1946–49). In 2009, former ''

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'' editor

John Darnton John Darnton (born November 20, 1941) is an American journalist who wrote for the '' New York Times''. He is a two-time winner of the Polk Award, of which he is now the curator, and the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. He also moo ...

was named curator of the George Polk Awards. Josh Marshall's

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, '' Talking Points Memo'', was the first blog to receive the Polk Award in 2008 for its reporting on the 2006 U.S. Attorneys scandal.

List of award recipients

References

{{reflist George Polk Award recipients American journalism awards Awards established in 1949 Career awards 1949 establishments in New York (state) Long Island University

History

List of award recipients

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