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The prestige of the George Polk Award has grown through
the years with the list of winners, which follows, with the most
recent first (1996-1990). |
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| 1999 | ||
| Foreign Reporting | Paul Watson, Los Angeles Times | |
| Television Foreign Reporting | Giselle Portenier, Olenka Frenkiel and Fiona Murch, BBC News | |
| International Reporting | Sang-hun Choe, Charles J. Hanley, Martha Mendoza and Randy Herschaft, Associated Press | |
| National Reporting | Jason DeParle, The New York Times | |
| Regional Reporting | Todd Richissin and Andre Chung, The Baltimore Sun | |
| Criminal Justice Reporting | Ken Armstrong and Steve Mills, Chicago Tribune | |
| Local Reporting | Kevin Carmody, Daily Southtown (Illinois) | |
| Local Television Reporting | The "I" Team, WWOR-TV | |
| Editorial Writing | Daily News (New York) | |
| Financial Reporting | Ellen E. Schultz, The Wall Street Journal | |
| Medical Reporting | Andrea Gerlin, The Philadelphia Inquirer | |
| Special Award | National Security Archive | |
| Career Award | Studs Terkel | |
1998 (top of page) |
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| Book Award | Philip Gourevitch, The New Yorker | |
| Career Award | Russell Baker, New York Times | |
| Commentary | Juan Gonzalez, New York Daily News | |
| Economic Reporting | Mary Jordan, Keith Richburg and Kevin Sullivan, The Washington Post, | |
| Environmental Reporting | Gardiner Harris and R.G. Dunlop, Louisville Courier- Journal | |
| Foreign Reporting | Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times | |
| International Reporting | Alix M. Freedman, The Wall Street Journal | |
| Legal Reporting | Joe Stephens, The Kansas City Star | |
| Local Reporting | Clifford J. Levy, The New York Times | |
| Medical Reporting | Robert Whitaker and Dolores Kong, The Boston Globe | |
| National Reporting | Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Time | |
| Radio Reporting | Amy Goodman and Jeremy Scahill, Democracy Now/Pacifica Radio | |
| Television Reporting | Brian Ross and Rhonda Schwartz, ABC News-20/20 | |
1997 (top of page) |
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| Career Award | The Pittsburgh Courier | |
| Foreign Reporting | Laurie Garrett, Newsday | |
| Network TV Reporting | Brian Ross and Rhonda Schwartz, Prime Time Live | |
| Military Affairs Reporting | Dayton Daily News | |
| Medical Reporting | The Wall Street Journal | |
| Business Reporting | Kurt Eichenwald and Martin Gottlieb, The New York Times | |
| National Reporting | Keith Bradsher, The New York Times | |
| Local Reporting | Pensacola News Journal | |
| Environmental Reporting | Will Englund, Gary Cohn and Perry Thorsvik, The Baltimore Sun | |
| Book Award | Horst Faas and Tim Page, "Requiem," Random House | |
| Sports Reporting | Kansas City Star | |
| International Reporting | Michael Dobbs, The Washington Post | |
| Magazine Reporting | Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker | |
1996 (top of page) |
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| Criticism Award | Blair Kamin, Chicago Tribune | |
| National TV Reporting | Matt Meagher, Tim Peek, Inside Edition | |
| Economics Reporting | The New York Times | |
| National Reporting | Elizabeth Marchak, The Cleveland Plain Dealer | |
| Political Reporting | The Los Angeles Times | |
| Cultural Reporting | Chuck Philips, The Los Angeles Times | |
| Magazine Reporting | Anne-Marie Cusac, The Progressive | |
| Local Reporting | Kevin Collison, The Buffalo News | |
| Transportation Reporting | Byron Acohido, The Seattle Times | |
| Foreign Reporting | John F. Burns, The New York Times | |
| Foreign TV Reporting | Christiane Amanpour, Anita Pratap, CNN | |
1995 (top of page) |
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| Career Award | John K. Cooley, ABC News | |
| Foreign Reporting | David Rohde, The Christian Science Monitor | |
| National Reporting | Michael Weisskopf and David Maraniss, The Washington Post | |
| Local Reporting | Elizabeth Llorente, The Record | |
| Metropolitan Reporting | Frank Bruni, Nina Bernstein, Joyce Purnick and Lizette Alverez, The New York Times | |
| Magazine Reporting | Richard Behar, Fortune | |
| Education Reporting | Steve Stecklow, The Wall Street Journal | |
| Business Reporting | Kurt Eichenwald, The New York Times | |
| Health Care Reporting | Chris Adams, The Times - Picayune | |
| Medical Reporting | The Orange County Register | |
| Local Television Reporting | Tom Grant, KREM-TV (Spokane) | |
| Consumer Reporting | Lea Thompson, Jack Cloherty and Sandra Surles, Dateline/NBC | |
| Network TV Reporting | Jim Clancy, CNN | |
1994 (top of page) |
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| Magazine Reporting | Allan Nairn, The Nation | |
| Medical Reporting | Dave Davis and Joan Mazzolini | |
| The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer | ||
| Education Reporting | Olive Talley, The Dallas Morning News | |
| Environmental Reporting | Jim Lynch and Karen Dorn Steele | |
| The Spokesman - Review (Spokane) | ||
| Political Reporting | Joe Stephens, The Kansas City Star | |
| Local Reporting | Sonia Nazario, The Los Angeles Times | |
| Metropolitan Reporting | David Armstrong, Shelly Murphy, and | |
| Stephen Kurkjian, The Boston Globe | ||
| National Reporting | Joel Brinkley, Deborah Sontag, and Stephen Engelberg, The New York Times | |
| Foreign Reporting | Barbara Demick, The Philadelphia Inquirer | |
| Television Documentary | Steven Emerson and Martin Koughan SAE Productions (Aired on PBS) |
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| Network Television reporting |
John Martin, Walt Bogdanich and Keith Summa |
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| Career Award | Philip Hamburger The New Yorker |
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1993 (top of page) |
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| Medical Reporting | Larry Keller and Fred Schulte, Sun-Sentinel | |
| Magazine Reporting | Oliver Sacks, The New Yorker | |
| Business Reporting | Paul Nyden, Charleston Gazette | |
| Foreign Reporting | Keith Richburg, The Washington Post | |
| Local Reporting | Ying Chan, New York Daily News | |
| National Reporting | Eileen Welsome, Albuquerque Tribune | |
| Political Reporting | State Journal - Register | |
| Financial Reporting | Scot J. Paltrow, The Los Angeles Times | |
| Regional Reporting | Isabel Wilkerson, The New York Times | |
| Radio Commentary | Daniel Schorr, National Public Radio | |
| Book | David Remnick," Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire" | |
| Career Award | Richard Dudman, St. Louis Post - Dispatch | |
| Television Reporting | Christiane Amanpour, CNN | |
1992 (top of page) |
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| Local Reporting | The Los Angeles Times | |
| National Reporting | Gregory Vistica, San Diego Union - Tribune | |
| Foreign Reporting | Roy Gutman, Newsday | |
| Legal Reporting | Marianne Lavelle, Marcia Coyle, Claudia MacLachian, The National Law Journal | |
| Magazine Reporting | Lawrence Weschler, The New Yorker | |
| Health Reporting | Seth Rosenfeld, San Francisco Examiner | |
| Environmental Reporting | John Thor Dahlburg, The Los Angeles Times | |
| Photography | Carlos Guerrero, El Nuevo Herald | |
| Radio Reporting | Tom Gjelten, National Public Radio | |
| National TV Reporting | Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz, Dateline, NBC News | |
| Foreign TV Reporting | Chris Wallace, Neal Shapiro, Anthony Radziwill, PrimeTime Live, ABC News | |
| Social Commentary | Henry Louis Gates, Jr., NY Times OP-Ed | |
| Career Award | Herbert Mitgang, The New York Times | |
1991 (top of page) |
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| Radio Reporting | Nina Totenberg, National Public Radio | |
| Local Television | Christopher Scholl, KWWL TV, Iowa | |
| National Television | Glenn Silber, Robert Krulwich, David Fanning, Sharon Tiller, Frontline: Center for Investigative Reporting | |
| Cultural Reporting | Konstantin Akinsha, Grigorii Kozlov, ARTnews | |
| Special Award | Andrew Schneider, Mary Pat Flaherty, The Pittsburgh Press | |
| Education Reporting | Jeff Gottlieb, San Jose Mercury News | |
| Economic Reporting | Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele, The Philadelphia Inquirer | |
| War Reporting | Patrick J. Sloyan, Newsday | |
| Local Reporting | Holly A. Taylor, The Berkshire Eagle | |
| Regional Reporting | Dan Barry, John Sullivan, Ira Chinoy, The Providence Journal - Bulletin | |
| National Reporting | Jeff Taylor, Mike McGraw, The Kansas City Star | |
| Foreign Reporting | Francis X. Clines, The New York Times | |
| Foreign Reporting | Barbara Crossette, The New York Times | |
| Career Award | Claude Fox Sitton | |
1990 (top of page) |
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| Foreign Reporting | Caryle Murphy, The Washington Post | |
| National Reporting | Susan F. Rasky and David E. Rosenbaum | |
| The New York Times | ||
| Regional Reporting | Gayle Reaves, David Hanners, David McLemore | |
| The Dallas Morning News | ||
| Local Reporting | Heidi Evans, New York Daily News | |
| Environmental Reporting | Adam Seessel, Independent Weekly | |
| Business Reporting | Dianne Marder, The Philadelphia Inquirer | |
| Special Publications | Joseph M. Belth, The Insurance Forum | |
| Special Award | Globalvision | |
| Documentary Television | Hedrick Smith, Martin Smith, WGBH Boston and Martin Smith Productions | |
| Local Television Reporting | Kevin Kerrigan, Guam Cable Television | |
| Network Television Reporting | Peter Jennings, Leslie Cockburn, Tom Yellin, ABC News | |
| Career Award | Fred Friendly | |
| Metropolitan Reporting | Laurie Bennett, Alan Fisk and Robert Ourlian, Detroit News | |
