George Polk Awards

@PolkAwards

The official Twitter account of the George Polk Awards in Journalism, the first major award of its kind to recognize reporting across all media.

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George Polk Awards
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Feb 19, 2024
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the George Polk Awards. The awards were established in 1949 by Long Island University to commemorate George Polk, a CBS correspondent murdered in 1948 while covering the Greek civil war.
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Feb 19, 2024
The 2023 Sydney Schanberg Prize goes to Jason Motlagh of Rolling Stone for “This Will End in Blood and Ashes,” a vivid account of the virtually complete collapse of order in Haiti.
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Feb 19, 2024
Masha Gessen has been honored for Commentary for the New Yorker essay “In the Shadow of the Holocaust,” a deeply personal and highly nuanced examination of how Germany and other European nations equate opposition to Israeli policies with anti-Semitism.
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Feb 19, 2024
The award for Television Reporting goes to VICE News correspondent Julia Steers and producer Amel Guettatfi for “Inside Wagner,” compelling on-the-ground coverage of Russian mercenaries on the Ukraine front and in the Central African Republic.
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Feb 19, 2024
Meribah Knight of WPLN Nashville, Ken Armstrong of ProPublica and Daniel Guillemette of Serial Productions, The New York Times, won for a Podcast, “The Kids of Rutherford County,” which chronicled the shockingly misguided approach to juvenile discipline by a domineering judge.
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