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Topic: George Polk Award

	AP/Whats New
		Dodds won the award for foreign reporting, for her coverage of the fall of the Aristide regime in Haiti.
		Pritchard was awarded the George Polk Award in Labor Reporting for his investigative coverage of job-related deaths of Mexican workers in the United States.
		In awarding her the George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting, the judges said Dodds covered the toppling of the Aristide government “at great personal risk” to provide an eyewitness account that also detailed the roles played by the United States and the Dominican Republic.
	www.ap.org /pages/about/pressreleases/pr_022105.html (476 words)

	ZNet Commentary: A (Desperate) Call to the US Youth (Part 1)
		George W. Polk was born in 1913 in Texas.
		Polk "was the first victim of the Cold War", as I.F. Stone, a great and honest American, said at the time.
		Polk defended the American intervention in Greece, but in his broadcasts and in his articles he criticized strongly the policy of the US that was intent to use violence against the revolt and were extremely harsh against the corrupt US controlled Greek government.
	www.zmag.org /sustainers/content/2005-04/10raptis.cfm (2144 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/George Polk Awards
		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.
		In addition, the George Polk Career Award is given in recognition of an individual's lifelong achievements.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/George_Polk_Awards (111 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Metro -- Union-Tribune, Copley News reporters honored
		Established in 1949, the Polk Awards are considered to be among the most prestigious in U.S. journalism.
		Among other winners of 2005 Polk Awards are a reporter and photographer from the Chicago Tribune who exposed a human trafficking network that supplied cheap and sometimes forced labor to the rebuilding effort in Iraq.
		The 14 awards are to be presented at a ceremony in New York on April 19.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/metro/20060220-1938-polk-staff.html (557 words)

	The George Polk Awards for Journalism
		His prize is among 13 awards for extraordinary journalism, ranging from courageous reporting in war zones to news-breaking investigations in baseball, which are being announced Tuesday by Long Island University.
		Moyers previously was honored with a George Polk Award for political reporting in 1980.
		The George Polk Awards memorialize the CBS correspondent slain covering a civil war in Greece in 1948.
	www.brooklyn.liu.edu /polk/press/2004.html (1606 words)

	2006 Kelly Award Press Release
		She won the award for her reporting from Southern Africa on the struggles faced by the women in the region.
		The $25,000 award is given annually to a journalist whose work exemplifies a quality that animated Michael Kelly's own career: the fearless pursuit and expression of truth.
		Eichenwald, 44, was a winner of the George Polk Award in 1996 for his articles about deficiencies in the American system of kidney dialysis care.
	kellyaward.com /mk_award_popup/pdf/press_release_2006.htm (1641 words)

	UCLA Anderson School of Management \| Gerald Loeb Awards \| Ellen E. Schultz
		Francis won a George Polk Award in the financial reporting category and a Sidney Hillman Foundation Award for their investigation into how companies profit from the deaths of workers on whom they hold life insurance.
		Schultz received an award for Distinguished Literary Contributions from the IEEE-USA, and in 2001 she was awarded the Sidney Hillman Foundation Award for a series of articles on how companies profit from their benefits plans.
		In 2000, she won the Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business and financial journalism; the George Polk Award in the financial reporting category; the Gold Typewriter Award from the New York Press Club, and the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism.
	www.anderson.ucla.edu /x8885.xml (486 words)

	Missouri School of Journalism: J-School Graduate One of Youngest to Win Polk Award
		Joseph, as part of an investigative team, won the local reporting award for "The Art of Deception," a two-day series that exposed a prominent Seattle art gallery that was selling fake Asian antiques.
		The Polk awards are considered by many to be one of the most prestigious awards in journalism and Joseph is one of the youngest ever to win the award.
		The award was created in 1949 by Long Island University and is named in memory of CBS Reporter George Polk, who died covering Greece's civil war.
	journalism.missouri.edu /news/2004/03-09-polk.html (390 words)

	Joseph Lelyveld: Awardee 2001
		The Burton Benjamin Memorial Award, given for a lifetime of distinguished achievement for the cause of press freedom, honors the late CBS News senior producer and former CPJ chairman, who died in 1988.
		Now if only I were in the position of presenting this award in memory of a great news editor, Bud Benjamin, to one of you, my presence here this evening would make a lot more sense to me than finding myself on the receiving end does.
		I can only imagine that the decision to give this award to a struggling free-lancer who has sold a grand total of two articles in the last 15 years is meant as an encouragement to unsalaried writers everywhere who, like me now, find themselves in a permanent state of looking for work.
	www.cpj.org /awards01/Lelyveld.html (892 words)

	Poynter Online - Forums
		Established in 1949, the Polk Awards are among the most coveted honors in journalism.
		The George Polk Career Award will be bestowed upon Frederick Wiseman, the documentary filmmaker whose works include "High School," "Hospital," "Public Housing" and the 1967 classic, "Titicut Follies," which focus on the everyday experiences of less fortunate Americans who struggle against the bureaucracy of social institutions operating at the community level.
		Receiving the George Polk Award for International Reporting will be Chicago Tribune reporter Cam Simpson and photographer Jose More for their investigation of the massacre of 12 Nepalese men in Iraq.
	poynter.org /forum/view_post.asp?id=11112 (669 words)

	RIT - News & Events: Manning wins prestigious magazine award
		The award recognizes the magazine, Southern Exposure, with Robert Manning, professor and special assistant to the provost at RIT, named as a co-recipient along with Michael Hudson, Mary Kane, Taylor Loyal and Bill Barrow.
		Established by Long Island University in 1949 to memorialize the CBS correspondent slain covering the civil war in Greece, the George Polk Award is now considered one of the top honors for journalistic excellence.
		The award will be presented in 14 categories in New York City on April 2.
	www.rit.edu /~930www/NewsEvents/2004/Mar01/manning.html (344 words)

	CBC.ca Arts - New Orleans newspaper honoured for reporting
		The George Polk Awards, among the most prestigious awards for journalism in the U.S., were announced by Long Island University in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Tuesday.
		The award for national reporting was won by Dana Priest of the Washington Post who unveiled the existence of secret CIA-run prisons and detailed the elaborate covert prison operations in a series of articles.
		The George Polk Awards are named after a CBS correspondent who was murdered while covering the civil war in Greece in 1948.
	www.cbc.ca /arts/story/2006/02/21/journalism-awards.html (1315 words)

	NPR'S Anne Garrels Wins Prestigous Polk Award
		WASHINGTON-NPR's Anne Garrels is the recipient of the George Polk Award for Radio Reporting in recognition of her outstanding coverage of the war in Iraq.
		Garrels was also part of the NPR News team that was recently awarded the 2003 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award's Silver Baton for its distinguished coverage of the war in Iraq.
		Founded by the University in 1949, the George Polk Awards memorialize the CBS correspondent slain covering a civil war in Greece and rank among America's most coveted journalism honors.
	www.npr.org /about/press/040219.garrels.html (419 words)

	Rathergate.com » George Polk Awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Of note, the WashPost’s Dana Priest won a George Polk national award for her piece about the alleged secret CIA prisons [winning article].
		For TV reporting, Brian Ross and Richard Esposito of ABC News won a George Polk award for reporting about the CIA’s alleged use of torture at these super-secret prisons which might or might not exist.
		Michael Isikoff deserves a George Polk award for his bogus reporting on the Koran flushing.
	www.rathergate.com /?p=1484 (264 words)

	About John B. Oakes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The award that bears his name was founded in 1993 by his family, friends, and colleagues.
		Oakes's father, George Washington Ochs-Oakes, was mayor of Chattanooga, Tennessee, editor of the Philadelphia Ledger, and publisher of Current History magazine.
		The Graduate School of Journalism assumed the administration of the prestigious John B. Oakes Award for Environmental Journalism in 2005.
	www.jrn.columbia.edu /events/oakes/about.asp (672 words)

	AP/Whats New
		NEW YORK (AP) – Seymour Hersh of The New Yorker won his fifth George Polk Award for his accounts of prisoner abuse in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, making him the most-honored individual in the history of the awards.
		The 13 awards were to be announced Tuesday by Long Island University, which was to present the prizes April 21.
		Walt Bogdanich of the Times won the national reporting category, his fourth Polk award, for his series on how railroad companies were able to sidestep regulations.
	www.ap.org /pages/about/whatsnew/wn_022105.html (538 words)

	Conference Speakers
		In 1998, Blethen was awarded the first Edward R. Murrow Award from the Murrow School of Communication at Washington State University for "Exemplifying the Murrow Tradition in Print Journalism" and he was inducted into the Washington State Hall for Journalism Achievement.
		She was part of a team that won first-place honors from the National Headliners Awards in 2002 for continuing coverage of the 9/11 attacks and shared in an Emmy for CNN's reporting on the Oklahoma City bombing.
		She directed coverage of a tainted mayoral election that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting and co-directed coverage of the Elian Gonzalez raid, which won the Pulitzer Prize for spot news.
	www.ire.org /training/atlanta04/AtlantaBios.html (17516 words)

	Prestigious Polk Journalism Awards Go to Bush-Bashers, Those Who Revealed Secrets \| NewsBusters.org
		A year after Bill Moyers won a “career” award, the 2005 winners of the “George Polk Awards,” which “memorialize the CBS correspondent who was murdered while covering the civil war in Greece in 1948,” were announced late Monday.
		Long Island University's page for the awards has not yet, as of the time of this posting, been updated since last year and the page listing the “advisors,” who pick the winners, hasn't been updated since 2003.
		I wonder how Priestess is going to be able to pawn her award for money for a good lawyer when she gets indicted for not releasing the leakers name who fed her the info that was intended to hurt this country and our men over seas.
	newsbusters.org /node/4117 (1394 words)

	sfweekly.com - News - Eye on the Prize
		There are subject-based journalism awards, one of which honors articles crafted by "active food journalists," whoever and wherever they may be.
		Death awards are those journalistic honors prestigious enough to be regularly listed in the winners' obituaries.
		The most prominent death award is, of course, the Pulitzer Prize, which, once bestowed, follows one-quarter inch behind a journalist's spine for life and then, when death happens, searches out an obit headline to inhabit ("Machu Picchu, 34, Pulitzer Prize-winning Writer").
	www.sfweekly.com /Issues/2002-02-20/news/mecklin_full.html (1172 words)

	The George Polk Awards for Journalism
		Their courage and dogged determination epitomize the spirit of the Awards, which are considered among the top honors for excellence in journalism.
		National Public Radio's Anne Garrels is the recipient of the George Polk Award for Radio Reporting in recognition of her outstanding coverage of the war in Iraq.
		Spencer was nominated for the award by a coterie of distinguished journalists, who cited his unflinching style and boundless energy as having inspired and nurtured some of this generation's finest editors, reporters and columnists.
	www.brooklyn.liunet.edu /polk/press/2003.html (1345 words)

	Association of Alternative Newsweeklies \| Bay Guardian Writer Wins George Polk Award
		George Bush has taught America a lot about "evil," but a 1954 novel about a sociopath tot tell us so much more...
		Adam Clay Thompson has won the 2005 George Polk Award for Local Reporting, Editor & Publisher reports.
		The Polk Awards have been awarded by Long Island University since 1949.
	aan.org /gyrobase/Aan/ViewArticle?oid=oid:157348 (187 words)

	Chronicle reporters honored for sports steroids coverage / Polk Award among journalism's highest
		San Francisco Chronicle reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams were honored today with a 2004 George Polk Award for their investigation into the use of banned steroids in major sports.
		The prestigious Polk awards, which honor journalists in about a dozen categories, have been given by Long Island University since 1949 in memory of the CBS correspondent killed while covering a civil war in Greece.
		The Santa Rosa Press Democrat also is a recipient of a 2004 George Polk Award for its regional reporting on the toll outsourcing of major jobs to foreign countries took on Sonoma County.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/02/22/MNG79BF1OR1.DTL (734 words)

	How this Courier-Journal project was conducted (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		His honors include a 1979 George Polk award for a series he co-wrote on industrial-waste disposal and a share of the Pulitzer Prize for staff coverage of the 1988 bus crash in Carroll County.
		Last year he won the George Polk award for local reporting for a project on the Bullitt County court system.
		His awards include an American Bar Association Silver Gavel, a George Polk award for national reporting and a share of the Pulitzer Prize for staff coverage of the 1988 bus crash in Carroll County.
	www.courier-journal.com /cjextra/2003projects/justice/day1/how.html (838 words)

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		The George Polk Awards are given out each year to the best in investigative journalism and rank among America's most prized honors in journalism.
		The Awards memorialize the CBS correspondent who was murdered while covering the civil war in Greece in 1948.
		A committee of jurors, faculty members and alumni of Long Island University, select the winners from entries submitted by journalists and news organizations, as well as nominations made by a panel of journalists and editors, including a number of former winners.
	www.creativepublicity.com /press/polk_award.doc (186 words)

	The George Polk Awards for Journalism
		Receiving the George Polk Award for International Reporting will be Chicago Tribune reporter Cam Simpson and photographer José More for their investigation of the massacre of 12 Nepalese men in Iraq.
		Meier won the George Polk Award for Business Reporting for his exposé on a commonly used heart implant device with a deadly defect that was unpublicized by medical-device manufacturer Guidant Corporation and by the Food and Drug Administration.
		The George Polk Awards memorialize the CBS correspondent who was murdered while covering the civil war in Greece in 1948.
	www.brooklyn.liu.edu /polk/press/2005.html (1881 words)

	Amazon.com: Polk Conspiracy, The: Books: Kati Marton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		When the body of CBS newsman George Polk was found floating in Salonika Bay on May 16, 1948, the Greek government, fearing loss of U.S. aid in the civil war between the Greek Army and Communist-led guerrillas, went to great lengths to divert suspicion from the rightist regime and lay the blame on the left.
		Second, Polk, an outspoken critic of the royalist regime, probably doomed himself by threatening to expose its corruption.
		In May 1948, George Polk, a foreign correspondent for CBS news, was murdered in Greece.
	www.amazon.com /Polk-Conspiracy-Kati-Marton/dp/0812920473 (1980 words)

	Knox College \| News - Barry Bearak Wins Polk Award for Reporting
		The 2001 George Polk Awards, announced in February 2002, were established by Long Island University in 1949 to memorialize a CBS correspondent who was killed while covering a civil war in Greece.
		"This award is one of the most prestigious awards a journalist can receive," Lawrence Breitborde, Dean of the College, said.
		He was a roving national correspondent based in Miami and later New York, writing in-depth stories on the American labor movement, low-income housing and homelessness.
	deptorg.knox.edu /newsarchive/news_events/2002/bearak_polk_award.html (419 words)

	Columbia News ::: J School Announces 2005 Mike Berger Award
		He shared a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for investigative reporting in a series of articles about Rhode Island's court system for The Providence Journal-Bulletin and shared a George Polk Award in 1992 while at the same publication.
		The award committee, members of Journalism faculty, cited examples of Barry's columns over the course of 2004.
		Past winners of the award include Jimmy Breslin, the late Helen Dudar, Matt Pacenza writing for City Limits, Jennifer Gonnerman of theVillage Voice, and Ray Sanchez of New York Newsday.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/news/05/05/mikeBerger_award.html (368 words)

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