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. The George Polk Awards have become one of the United States' most coveted journalism honors.

History

The George Polk Awards were established in 1948 in memory of George Polk, a CBS correspondent who was killed covering the Greek Civil War.

Winners

Partial list
Recipients of the George Polk Awards include Eddie Adams, Christiane Amanpour (multiple winner), James Baldwin,Erik Barnouw, Donald Bartlett (multiple winner), Richard Behar (multiple winner), Larry Bensky, Ed Bradley, Jimmy Breslin, Joel Brinkley, Robert Brustein, Walter Cronkite, Stephen Evans, Leila Fadel, Stefan Forbes, Thomas Friedman, Fred Friendly, Anne Garrels, Henry Louis Gates, Amy Goodman, Adam Gopnik, Michael R. Gordon, Philip Gourevitch, Roy Gutman, David Halberstam, Seymour Hersh (multiple winner), Peter Jennings, Pauline Kael, Matthew Kauffman, Ronald Kessler (multiple winner), Ted Koppel, Joshua Kors, Charles Kuralt, Joseph Lelyveld (multiple winner), Norman Mailer, Mary Ellen Mark, Jim McKay, Chris Mortensen, Bill Moyers (multiple winner), Edward R. Murrow, Lisa Myers, Allan Nairn, 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.

Categories

• Foreign Reporting

• Radio Reporting

• Photojournalism

• Economics Reporting

• Business Reporting

• Labor Reporting

• Legal 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.
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.

Winners