 The George Polk Awards are conferred annually to honor special achievement in journalism. They were established by Long Island University in 1949 to commemorate Polk, a CBS correspondent murdered the year before while covering the Greek civil war. Winners are chosen from newspapers, magazines, television, radio and on-line news organizations. Judges place a premium on investigative and enterprise work that is original, requires digging and resourcefulness and brings results. Awards are given for local, national, financial and foreign reporting, and when appropriate, in special areas such as health, military and the environment. A lifetime achievement award is sometimes presented.
Some of the most respected names in journalism have won George Polk Awards, including Edward R. Murrow, Christiane Amanpour, Carl Bernstein, David Halberstam, Gay Talese, Fred Friendly, I. F. Stone, Morley Safer, Joseph Lelyveld, Anthony Lukas and Walter Cronkite. The Awards are presented each spring at a luncheon in Manhattan attended by news executives, journalists, educators and students. The ceremonies are preceded the night before by the Polk Seminar, which features a panel of winners discussing relevant tropics in journalism.
2008 George Polk Awards
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The George Polk Awards Seminar
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts, Brooklyn Campus
The 61st Annual George Polk Awards Luncheon
Thursday, April 8, 2010
The Roosevelt Hotel, New York City
For more information, please call (516) 299-3298 or e-mail jeanette.morales@liu.edu.
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