HONOR

George F. Polk Award for excellence in journalism.

Official Website:
http://www.liunet.edu/About/News/Polk.aspx

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Christiane Amanpour	Journalist	12-Jan-1958		Host of ABC's This Week
Red Barber	Sports Figure	17-Feb-1908	22-Oct-1992	The Voice of the Dodgers
John Barron	Journalist	26-Jan-1930	24-Feb-2005	Soviet espionage expert
Carl Bernstein	Journalist	14-Feb-1944		Broke the Watergate story
Ed Bradley	Journalist	22-Jun-1941	9-Nov-2006	60 Minutes
Jimmy Breslin	Columnist	17-Oct-1930		The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
Frank Bruni	Journalist	31-Oct-1964		New York Times food critic
Robert Brustein	Educator	21-Apr-1927		Founder, American Reportory Theatre
John Burns	Journalist	4-Oct-1944		New York Times correspondent
Walter Cronkite	Journalist	4-Nov-1916	17-Jul-2009	America's most trusted newscaster
Kurt Eichenwald	Journalist	28-Jun-1961		Conspiracy of Fools
Jules Feiffer	Cartoonist	26-Jan-1929		Can't draw but writes like a master
Thomas Friedman	Journalist	20-Jul-1953		New York Times
Fred Friendly	Journalist	30-Oct-1915	3-Mar-1998	President of CBS News, 1964-66
Anne Garrels	Journalist	2-Jul-1951		NPR senior foreign correspondent
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.	Author	16-Sep-1950		The Signifying Monkey
Tom Gjelten	Journalist	?		NPR correspondent
Amy Goodman	Radio Personality	13-Apr-1957		Host of Democracy Now!
Charles Green	Journalist	c. 1952		National Journal editor
David Halberstam	Journalist	10-Apr-1934	23-Apr-2007	The Powers That Be
Seymour Hersh	Journalist	8-Apr-1937		Uncovered the My Lai Massacre
Peter Jennings	Journalist	29-Jul-1938	7-Aug-2005	Former anchor, ABC World News Tonight
Stanley Kauffmann	Critic	24-Apr-1916		Film critic for The New Republic
Ronald Kessler	Journalist	31-Dec-1943		Inside the CIA
Ted Koppel	Journalist	8-Feb-1940		Nightline
Nicholas D. Kristof	Journalist	27-Apr-1959		New York Times Op-Ed columnist
Charles Kuralt	TV Personality	10-Sep-1934	4-Jul-1997	On the Road
Spike Lee	Film Director	20-Mar-1957		Do The Right Thing
David Levine	Cartoonist	20-Dec-1926	29-Dec-2009	Caricaturist, New York Review of Books
Jeff MacNelly	Cartoonist	17-Sep-1948	8-Jun-2000	Editorial cartoonist, Shoe
Norman Mailer	Author	31-Jan-1923	10-Nov-2007	Armies of the Night
Joshua Micah Marshall	Pundit	15-Feb-1969		Talking Points Memo
Bill Moyers	Journalist	6-Jun-1934		NOW with Bill Moyers
Edward R. Murrow	Journalist	25-Apr-1908	27-Apr-1965	The epitome of broadcast journalism
Victor Navasky	Publisher	5-Jul-1932		Publisher of The Nation
Walter Pincus	Journalist	24-Dec-1932		Washington Post reporter with CIA ties
Oliver Sacks	Doctor	9-Jul-1933		Awakenings
Morley Safer	Journalist	8-Nov-1931		60 Minutes
Pierre Salinger	Journalist	14-Jun-1925	16-Oct-2004	Former ABC News Correspondent
Jeremy Scahill	Journalist	c. 1974		Democracy Now!
Sydney Schanberg	Journalist	17-Jan-1934		The Death and Life of Dith Pran
Daniel Schorr	Journalist	31-Aug-1916	23-Jul-2010	Veteran journalist, Nixon enemy
William L. Shirer	Historian	23-Feb-1904	28-Dec-1993	Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Susan Sontag	Author	16-Jan-1933	28-Dec-2004	Novelist, critic, intellectual
John Stossel	Journalist	6-Mar-1947		Libertarian reporter
Gay Talese	Author	7-Feb-1932		Honor Thy Father
Studs Terkel	Author	16-May-1912	31-Oct-2008	Working
Nina Totenberg	Journalist	14-Jan-1944		NPR reporter
John Vinocur	Journalist	?		International Herald Tribune correspondent
Chris Wallace	Journalist	12-Oct-1947		Fox News Sunday
Bob Woodward	Journalist	26-Mar-1943		Broke the Watergate story

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