The George Polk Awards is an American journalism award. It was established by Long Island University in 1949 to memorialize George Polk, a CBS correspondent slain covering the Greek civil war. It is awarded in the following categories Long Island University is a private university with its primary campus in Brooklyn, New York. ... 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... CBSs first color logo, which debuted in the fall of 1965. ...
Foreign Reporting
Radio Reporting
Photojournalism
Economics Reporting
Business Reporting
Labor Reporting
National Reporting
Internet Reporting
Magazine Reporting
State Reporting
Education Reporting
Local Reporting
Television Reporting
In addition, the George Polk Career Award is given in recognition of an individual's lifelong achievements.
External link
George Polk Awards website (http://www.brooklyn.liu.edu/polk/polk.html)
Dodds won the award for foreign reporting, for her coverage of the fall of the Aristide regime in Haiti.
Pritchard was awarded the GeorgePolkAward in Labor Reporting for his investigative coverage of job-related deaths of Mexican workers in the United States.
In awarding her the GeorgePolkAward for Foreign Reporting, the judges said Dodds covered the toppling of the Aristide government “at great personal risk” to provide an eyewitness account that also detailed the roles played by the United States and the Dominican Republic.
Polk "was the first victim of the Cold War", as I.F. Stone, a great and honest American, said at the time.
Polk defended the American intervention in Greece, but in his broadcasts and in his articles he criticized strongly the policy of the US that was intent to use violence against the revolt and were extremely harsh against the corrupt US controlled Greek government.
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