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Polk Award

HONOR

George F. Polk Award for excellence in journalism.

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

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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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