The prestige of the George Polk Award has grown through the years with the list of winners, which follows, with the most recent first (1949-1948). [1949] [1948] 1949 (top of page) Foreign Reporting New York Herald Tribune Team of Six National Reporting Ted Poston, New York Post Suburban Reporting Fred Hechinger, Bridgeport (Conn.) Herald Wire Service Reporting Kingsbury Smith, International News Service Education Reporting Lester Grant, New York Herald Tribune Science Reporting William Laurence, The New York Times Radio Reporting Don Hollenbeck,Columbia Broadcasting System Community Service Brooklyn Eagle 1948 (top of page) Foreign Reporting Homer Bigart, New York Herald Tribune Metropolitan Reporting Malcolm Jonson, New York Sun Suburban Reporting Larry Andrews, Nassau (L.I. ) Review-Star Education Reporting Benjamin Fine, The New York Times Science Reporting Albert Deutsch, PM Community Service Brooklyn Eagle