 |
 |
| [ PDF version ] |
Career Award – Morley Safer
of CBS News for nearly
four decades of outstanding journalism that included breakthrough coverage
of the Vietnam War and continues with his role as co-editor for "60
Minutes."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1998/07/09/60minutes/main13545.shtml
International Reporting – Sonia Nazario and photographer Don Bartletti of the Los Angeles Times for "Enrique’s Journey," a six-part series that retraced the harrowing 800-mile trip of a Honduran youth to the United States – a journey emblematic of the desperate northward migration from Latin America. http://www.latimes.com/news/specials/enrique/
Foreign Reporting – Anthony Shadid of The Boston Globe for a series on the Middle East, covered despite being shot and seriously wounded, that conveyed the anger and despair as well as policies shaping the conflict. www.boston.com/globe/shadid
National Reporting – Also from the Globe, a team of reporters for the series, "Crisis in the Catholic Church," about widespread sexual abuse by priests and the role of Church officials in covering up and perpetuating it. http://www.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse
Regional Reporting – Clifford J. Levy of The New York Times, for the series, "Broken Homes," which shed light for the first time on the plight of 15,000 mentally ill adults housed in squalid New York state-licensed facilities. http://www.nytimes.com/brokenhomes
Health Care Reporting – Walt Bogdanich, Barry Meier and Mary Williams Walsh, also of The Times, for "Medicine’s Middlemen," a series that exposed the role of private companies in controlling the market on the sale of drugs and supplies to many hospitals, inflating costs and distributing inferior products. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/08/business/08BUYE.html
Environmental Reporting –
Debbie Salamone of the Orlando Sentinel for her series, "Florida’s
Water Crisis," which documented the grave danger unfettered growth
poses to state drinking water supplies.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/custom/growth/orl-waterseriesabout020302.story
Criminal Justice Reporting –
Michael Luo of the Associated Press for "Small
Town Justice," a series that questioned the confessions and manslaughter
convictions of three mentally handicapped African Americans in Butler,
Alabama.
../polk/press/justice_system.html
../polk/press/small_town_justice1.html
../polk/press/small_town_justice2.html
../polk/press/small_town_justice3.html
Financial Reporting – Ellen E. Schultz and Theo Francis of The Wall Street Journal for an investigation into how employers secretly use employee benefit plans to generate billions of dollars for themselves. ../polk/press/wsj.html
Medical Reporting – Stephen
Kiernan and Cadence Mertz of the Burlington (Vt.)
Free Press for revealing how the state withheld from the public essential
information about medical incompetence and health care fraud.
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/specialnews/silence/index.htm
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/specialnews/fahc/index.htm
Magazine Reporting – Arnold
S. Relman and Marcia Angell of The New Republic for
"America’s Other Drug Problem," showing that pharmaceutical
companies spend far more to advertise and lobby than to research.
../polk/press/tnrdrugpiece.pdf
Local Reporting – Jason Riley
and R.G. Dunlop of The Courier Journal, Louisville,
Kentucky, for exposing a grossly mismanaged county judicial system.
http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2002/11/26/index_bullitt.html
Television Reporting – Phil Williams and Bryan Staples at WTVF in Nashville, for "Friends in High Places," a series exposing potential ethics violations by then-Tennessee Governor Don Sundquist. http://newschannel5.com/news/investigates/friends/email.htm
Cultural Criticism – Susan Sontag for her New Yorker essay, "Looking At War," examining the history of modern warfare through the photographer’s lens and photojournalism’s impact on perceptions of war.
Long Island University
Celebrating 76 years of access to the American dream through excellence in higher education, Long Island University is a multi-campus, diverse, doctoral institution of higher learning. As the nation’s seventh-largest private university, we offer 563 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degree programs and certificates, and educate more than 31,000 students on six metropolitan area campuses in Brooklyn, Brookville (C.W. Post), Southampton, Brentwood, Rockland and Westchester. The Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences prepares students for successful careers in the continually growing fields of pharmacy and health care. The University’s Friends World program offers a wide range of study abroad options in North America and at six overseas locations. Our nearly 700 full-time faculty members provide outstanding instruction that is supplemented by exceptional internships and cooperative education opportunities. The accomplishments of more than 116,000 living alumni are a true testament to the success of our mission – providing the highest level of education to people from all walks of life. Our NCAA Division I & II athletic teams, nationally renowned George Polk Awards in journalism, Tilles Center for the Performing Arts and the Long Island University Public Radio network (WLIU-FM and WCWP-FM), provide excitement and enrichment for our students and the communities that we serve.
The Brooklyn Campus...
with distinguished dynamic curricula reflecting the great urban community it serves. Distinctive programs encompass the arts and media, natural sciences, business, social policy, urban education, the health professions, and the Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, all on a pluralistic campus that draws insight and strength from differences. The Campus offers Ph.D. programs in clinical psychology and pharmaceutics, the D.P.T. in physical therapy as well as the Pharm.D. in pharmacy. Construction will begin on a new Performing Arts Complex – including the 350-seat Steven and Peggy Kumble Theater – and a $35 million recreation, athletics and wellness center within the next year.
 |