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The George Polk Awards in Journalism are a series of American journalism awards presented annually by Long Island University in New York.

Awards

Year Category Winner Organization Work
2023 Foreign Reporting The New York Times The New York Times “for unsurpassed coverage of the war between Israel and Hamas"
National Reporting Joshua Kaplan
Justin Elliott
Alex Mierjeski
Brett Murphy
staff of ProPublica
ProPublica "for revealing secret, lavish and highly questionable gifts that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has received for decades from wealthy benefactors"
Local Reporting Jesse Coburn
StreetsBlog NYC "for "Ghost Tags: Inside New York City's Black Market for Temporary License Plates," the product of a seven-month investigation that uncovered an extensive underground economy in fraudulent paper license plates that motorists used to evade detection while driving on suspended licenses, dodging tolls and tickets and committing other more serious crimes"
State Reporting Chris Osher
Julia Cardi
The Gazette of Colorado Springs "for exposing the heartbreaking consequences of a family court system that relied on the advice of unqualified and incompetent parental evaluators to return young children to abusive fathers, leading to four deaths in a two-month period"
Business Reporting Staff of Reuters
Reuters "for penetrating reports on nefarious practices at companies owned by multi-billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk"
Medical Reporting Anna Werner
Brett Kelman
Fred Schulte
Holly K. Hacker
Daniel Chang
CBS News, KFF Health News "for "When Medical Devices Malfunction," which reported on the failure of FDA-approved knee implants; hip implant failures that led to emergency surgery; faulty heart pumps; the recall of insulin pumps three years after an FDA official hailed them as technology that would "give patients greater freedom to live their lives," and (literally) jaw-dropping dental devices that totally escaped the agency's attention"
Medical Reporting Michael D. Sallah
Michael Korsh
Evan Robinson-Johnson
Debbie Cenziper
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, ProPublica "for "With Every Breath," a series exposing the scope of a corporate cover-up that allowed Philips Respironics to continue marketing breathing machines around the globe years after the FDA received warnings about contaminants in the machines and the company's own experts concluded that the devices posed severe health risks to users"
Justice Reporting Brian Howey freelance "exposé on a tawdry police practice was published by the Los Angeles Times and developed into a segment of a podcast by Reveal, The Center for Investigative Reporting"
Magazine Reporting Luke Mogelson
The New Yorker "for "Two Weeks at the Front in Ukraine.""
Photojournalism Samar Abu Elouf
Yousef Masoud
The New York Times "for chronicling Israel's bombardment and invasion of their homeland, Gaza"
Podcast Meribah Knight
Ken Armstrong
Daniel Guillemette
WLPN Nashville, ProPublica, "for a four-part Podcast, "The Kids of Rutherford County," which chronicled the shockingly misguided approach to juvenile discipline by a domineering judge in one Tennessee county"
Television Reporting Julia Steers
Amel Guettatfi
VICE News "for "Inside Wagner," compelling on-the-ground coverage of Russian mercenaries on the Ukraine front and in the Central African Republic"
Commentary Masha Gessen The New Yorker "In the Shadow of the Holocaust," a deeply personal and highly nuanced examination of how Germany and other European nations equate opposition to Israeli policies with anti-Semitism"
Sydney H. Schanberg Prize Jason Motlagh Rolling Stone "for "This Will End in Blood and Ashes," a vivid account of the virtually complete collapse of order in Haiti"
2022 Foreign Reporting The New York Times The New York Times “The Making of Vladimir Putin,” a 6,750-word opus by Paris bureau chief Roger Cohen, tracing Putin’s “22-year slide from statesman to tyrant,” and “Putin’s War,” the 13,000-word product of two-months of research replete with invasion maps, cell phone intercepts and diaries from Russian soldiers, exposed the vaunted Russian military as unprepared, ill equipped and badly managed
War Reporting Mstyslav Chernov
Evgeniy Maloletka
Vasilisa Stepanenko
Lori Hinnant
Associated Press Narratives and images of the Siege of Mariupol
National Reporting Josh Gerstein
Alex Ward
Peter Canellos
Politico Revealing Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization overturning Roe v. Wade
Local Reporting John Archibald
Ashley Remkus
Ramsey Archibald
AL.com Revealing abusive policing in Brookside, Alabama
State Reporting Joshua Schneyer
Mica Rosenberg
Kristina Cooke
Reuters Abusive employment of underage migrants in Hyundai auto parts factories and poultry slaughterhouses in Alabama
Health Reporting Kendall Taggart
John Templon
Anthony Cormier
Jason Leopold
BuzzFeed News Decline in quality of care at group homes for people with disabilities operated by KKR
Financial Reporting Ian Allison
Tracy Wang
CoinDesk Revealing the financial situation of FTX and Alameda Research, ultimately leading to the Bankruptcy of FTX
Environmental Reporting Terrence McCoy Washington Post Examination of the exploitation of natural resources in the Amazon rainforest
Education Reporting Eliza Shapiro
Brian M. Rosenthal
The New York Times Inadequate quality of education at Hasidic yeshivas in New York City
Justice Reporting Brett Murphy ProPublica “Words of Conviction,” a report debunking 911 call analysis
Political Reporting Sarah Blaskey
Nicholas Nehamas
Ana Ceballos
Mary Ellen Klas
Miami Herald Reporting on the Martha's Vineyard migrant airlift
Foreign Television Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Kavitha Chekuru
Laila Al-Arian
Al Jazeera English Report on the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh
National Television Reporting Shimon Prokupecz CNN Reporting on the failed law enforcement response to the Robb Elementary School shooting
Photojournalism Lynsey Addario The New York Times Iconic photo of the bodies of a woman and her two children alongside a friend who lay dying moments after a mortar struck them as they sought to flee Ukraine
Special Award Theo Baker The Stanford Daily Reporting on significant flaws in research published by then-president of Stanford University, Marc Tessier-Lavigne
Sydney H. Schanberg Prize Alex Perry Outside magazine Account of a 2021 ISIS attack on the town of Palma, Mozambique
2021 Foreign Reporting Maria Abi-Habib
Frances Robles
The New York Times Award for "detailed accounts" attributing the assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse to "a plot by drug traffickers likely concerned that the president might expose them." The reports "debunked official versions of events" and "exposed disturbing aspects of Moïse’s past."
National Reporting Washington Post "The Attack," a three-part online series that "cited systematic security failures" in the lead-up to the attack on the United States Capitol, as well as documenting President Donald Trump's "incitement of the insurrectionists and refusal to heed pleas to intercede," examining "the continued growth of radical hate groups," and the "resumption of Republican efforts to promote baseless claims of 2020 election fraud."
Local Reporting Corey G. Johnson
Rebecca Woolington
Eli Murray
Tampa Bay Times For reports ("funded in part by PBS' Frontline's Local Journalism Initiative") that exposed "unsafe conditions" at a lead-smelting factory; the conditions "endangered low-wage employees working with inadequate protection from the effects of lead dust and other toxic chemicals."
State Reporting Carol Marbin Miller
Daniel Chang
Miami Herald
in partnership with ProPublica
"Birth & Betrayal," a series of reports exposing the consequence of a 1988 law designed to shelter medical providers from lawsuits by funding lifelong care for children severely disabled by birth-related brain injuries, and how an agency responsible for "stewarding" nearly $1.7 billion in funds "repeatedly refused pleas for care."
International Reporting Ian Urbina The New Yorker
in collaboration with The Outlaw Ocean Project
Award for an article revealing that "the European Union equipped and trained Libyans to intercept migrants from sub-Saharan Africa at sea and hold them in secret prisons." During their reporting, Urbina and his team were seized, detained, beaten, and intererogated and by Libyan agents at a "black site" for 6 days.
Medical Reporting Adam Feuerstein
Matthew Herper
Damian Garde
STAT Reports revealing "covert lobbying" of the Food and Drug Administration by Biogen, which led to the FDA overruling its own scientific advisors "to grant approval for Biogen's new and costly treatment for Alzheimer's disease despite questionable trial results."
Business Reporting Jeff Horwitz The Wall Street Journal "The Facebook Files," a series that exposed how the social media company and its top executives "ignored internal findings" and rejected fixes to company practices promoted extremism and divisiness, endangered teenage girls to negative discussions of body image and emotional health, and protected drug cartels — all out of fears that "political friction" and profitability would decrease were those fixed put into place.
Environmental Reporting David Muir
Almin Karamehmedovic
Esther Castillejo
ABC News Award for "The Children of Climate Change," a series airing on World News Tonight and Nightline that showed "how global warming led to a famine devastating a remote, drought-stricken region of Madagascar."
Magazine Reporting Sarah Stillman The New Yorker Award for “The Migrant Workers Who Follow Climate Disasters,” which explored how federal contractors benefitted from "the multi-billion-dollar disaster recovery industry" while putting the lives their employees, many of whom are undocumented immigrants or foreign guest workers, at risk.
Military Reporting Azmat Kahn
Dave Phillips
Eric Schmitt
The New York Times Award for exposing "a record of deadly errors" that led to "intelligence failures and civilian deaths associated with Middle East air strikes."
Political Reporting Linda So
Jason Szep
Reuters Award for reports uncovering "widespread intimidation efforts by acolytes of Donald Trump to undermine the electoral process by threatening and vilifying poll workers and government officials in 16 states," and how those aggrieved by such false narratives made threats against election officials (and were prosecuted for doing so).
Technology Reporting Forbidden Stories Network
Washington Post
The Guardian
Award for "The Pegasus Project," reporting that revealed how spywear sold by NSO Group was used to tap into the phones of business executives, human rights activists, journalists, and politicians.
Local Television Reporting Dave Biscobing KNXV-TV/Phoenix, AZ "Politically Charged", a series of reports that revealed how police and prosecutors fabricated, yet testified as real, the existence of a street gang "in order to convince a grand jury to authorize surveillance of political protestors."
National Television Reporting A. C. Thompson ProPublica
PBS Frontline
Berkeley Investigative Reporting Program
Award for "American Insurrection," which examined the emboldening of far-right extremist activity across the United States.
Foreign Television Reporting Clarissa Ward CNN Award for "real-time coverage" of the "rapid rise" of Taliban forces as U.S. Troops withdrew from Afghanistan.
2020 Foreign Reporting David Culver

Yong Xiong

Natalie Thomas

CNN "for giving much of the world its first on-the-scene look at the dangers posed by the coronavirus and the Chinese efforts to control its spread. Tapping into independent sources they developed during a trip to Wuhan that was cut short when the government ordered a lockdown of the city, the CNN crew did much of its early reporting from an enforced 14-day quarantine site."
Science Reporting Ed Yong The Atlantic "for his clear and insightful analysis of factors behind the spread of COVID-19 and failed efforts to bring it under control. Yong’s March 25 account, “How the Pandemic Will End,” correctly predicted its inordinately severe impact in the U.S., a circumstance his August 4 story, “How the Pandemic Defeated America,” explained in devastating detail."
Medical Reporting Dan Diamond Politico "for multiple accounts of Trump Administration interference with the Centers for Disease Control and other sources of medical and scientific expertise. Among the actions he revealed were efforts to reduce COVID-19 testing, pour $300 million into a celebrity ad campaign, send seniors $200 drug discount cards, ignore a “pandemic playbook” inherited from the Obama Administration and install a spokesman at the Department of Health and Human Services with orders to withhold or revise reports that did not hew to the official line."
Public Service Award Helen Branswell Stat "for relentless coverage of all aspects of the pandemic that became must reading for the medical community and the general public. From her first posting January 4 alerting readers to a “growing cluster of unexplained pneumonia cases” in Wuhan to her December 31 take on experts’ frustration over how little they knew about a new variant of the virus, Branswell tracked the spread of the virus in 161 articles — more than three a week —that were almost uniformly timely and astute."
Health Reporting Staff of ProPublica ProPublica "for two series examining the pandemic’s disproportionate impact on Black Americans and meatpacking workers. Using data and anecdotal evidence, a team of reporters revealed high rates of infection in Black communities because of limited access to proper medical care. In another series, reporters Michael Grabell and Bernice Yeung found global corporations exposed low-wage food handlers to conditions that caused widespread Covid-19 outbreaks, even lobbying the federal government to declare them essential workers."
Oral History Eli Saslow The Washington Post "for “Voices from the Pandemic,” 25 compelling personal narratives he crafted based on extensive interviews with individuals deeply affected by the virus. Saslow chose each to represent a segment of the American populace coping with grief, fear, guilt, bitterness, frustration, tension, dejection and other emotions, relating their stories in their own words while keeping his role invisible to the reader."
Military Reporting Matthias Gafni

Joe Garofoli

Tal Kopan

San Francisco Chronicle "for disclosing the Pentagon’s punishment of Navy Captain Brett Crozier who sought to evacuate nearly 5,000 sailors in tight quarters aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt to protect them from exposure to Covid-19. The Chronicle story forced the Acting Navy Secretary to resign and called into question the military’s approach to the pandemic. In the end a crewmember died and a thousand others tested positive for the virus, including Crozier, who lost his command, was almost reinstated and finally lost it for good."
Magazine Reporting Katie Engelhart The California Sunday Magazine "for “What Happened in Room 10?”. Focusing on one room in the Life Care Center of Kirkland, Washington, scene of the nation's first deadly COVID-19 outbreak, which led to 46 deaths, Engelhart's seamless 17,000-word narrative was at once riveting storytelling and a deft analysis of what went so wrong in nursing homes across the country."
National Reporting Luke Mogelson The New Yorker "for three magazine articles putting his extensive experience as a foreign war correspondent to use with firsthand accounts of domestic upheaval that sometimes turned violent. He produced probing portraits of Black Lives Matter activists in Minneapolis, anti-lockdown militia members in Michigan and competing left and right militants on the streets of Portland."
Local Reporting Staff of the Star Tribune Star Tribune "for coverage of the death of George Floyd and its aftermath, starting with spot-on deadline work by police reporter Libor Jany and then delving into the background on Floyd and the officers indicted for killing him. Other articles explored the unsavory history of a precinct, destroyed by protestors, that was considered a breeding ground for renegade cops. The articles portrayed an ineffective police disciplinary process and reported on attempts to rethink the role of police and pick up the pieces in neighborhoods ravaged in the protests."
Justice Reporting Staff of The Washington Post The Washington Post "'George Floyd’s America,' a six-part series by a team of Washington Post reporters illustrating how uncanny a match Floyd’s life and death were for the national movement he came to symbolize, has won the award for Justice Reporting. Based on more than 150 interviews, the Post series detailed how entrenched poverty, structural racism, inferior education, police intimidation and a rigged criminal justice system dogged Floyd’s life from beginning to end."
Television Reporting Roberto Ferdman VICE News "for breakthrough coverage of the shooting death of 26-year-old Breonna Taylor in a “no-knock” police raid in Louisville and the investigations that followed. Their reports revealed a pattern of over-heavy police enforcement amid a culture that condoned misconduct and called into question official accounts of the raid and ensuing probes, including a highly suspect grand jury investigation."
Political Reporting Stephanie McCrummen The Washington Post for deftly capturing Georgia’s shifting political winds in three perceptive profiles in the run- up to the election. One highlighted the conversion of a suburban woman whose turn away from President Trump presaged his ultimate defeat. Another portrayed the re-election of a 76-year-old Democrat-turned-Republican sheriff as a reflection of resistance to change in the rural South. And the third chronicled the collapse of a Democratic Congressional campaign against a far-right conspiratorialist whose outlandish views would soon make her a pariah for many colleagues on Capitol Hill.
Business Reporting Ryan Mac

Craig Silverman

BuzzFeed News "for a series demonstrating how Facebook exposes the public to disinformation, fraud and violence. They found the $800 billion social media giant was slow to remove extremist content, fired a whistleblower who determined it favored right-wing publishers and disregarded another who detailed how fake accounts were undermining the democratic process in India, Ukraine, Spain, Brazil, Bolivia and Ecuador as well as the U.S. In one egregious example, Mac and Silverman revealed that Facebook ignored 455 requests to remove an event page urging militants to bring weapons to a Wisconsin protest where two people were later shot to death."
Financial Reporting Ross Buettner

Susanne Craig

Mike McIntire

The New York Times "for accessing and analyzing a trove of Donald Trump’s income tax information, a reportorial coup suggesting why Trump went to such lengths to hide it from public view. They reported that in 11 years before 2017, he paid no federal income tax, benefitting from such questionable write-offs as $70,000 for hair care, over $2 million in property taxes on a family retreat and almost $800,000 in “consulting fees” paid to his daughter. Perhaps their most stinging revelation was the amount Trump remitted in each of two years he did pay tax: $750."
Local Reporting Ian Shapira The Washington Post for laying bare overt racism at the state-supported Virginia Military Institute. Among other things, he persuaded aggrieved Black cadets to open up about their experiences at the hands of whites. His series of articles led Governor Ralph Northam (an alumnus) to order an independent investigation. They pressured VMI’s board to remove a statue of Confederate general Stonewall Jackson and forced the resignation of VMI’s superintendent, who was succeeded by the first Black to lead the 181- year-old institute.
Education Reporting Robert Lee

Tristan Ahone

High Country News "for 'Land Grab Universities,' the result of a two- year investigation exploring the dark side of a federal initiative considered a hallmark achievement, the 1862 Morrill Act. The law transferred nearly 11 million acres to the states to fund the establishment of 52 land grant colleges. Nearly all that acreage, now worth an estimated half-billion dollars, was seized from 250 Indigenous nations, the magazine found. Its well-documented account sent shockwaves through campuses across the country where students and faculty demanded that institutions like MIT, Cornell and Cal-Berkeley find ways to right a 150- year-old wrong."
Special Award Regina Martínez Pérez Proceso

Forbidden Stories

Eight years after the 2012 murder of Martinez, journalists following her leads produced “The Cartel Project,” which linked politicians to drug traffickers in the state of Veracruz and discovered that she had been preparing to publish an explosive report about thousands of individuals who had mysteriously disappeared. Forbidden Stories reporters interviewed sources who had never spoken on-the-record, revealing how local authorities sabotaged the investigation into Martinez's death and put a scapegoat behind bars without proof — a tactic similar to one used by the Greek government in the aftermath of George Polk’s murder.
2019 Foreign reporting Azam Ahmed The New York Times "for risking his safety time and again to portray the reality and impact of violence perpetrated by gangs, drug cartels and even police in firsthand dispatches from Brazil, Jamaica, Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico, where he is stationed as the Times Bureau Chief."
National reporting Lomi Kriel Houston Chronicle "for revealing previously unreported aspects of the Trump Administration's immigration policy and tactics that extracted a heavy and sometimes lethal toll on Latin American refugees, including the continued separation of some families without apparent reason."
Metropolitan reporting Staff of Newsday Newsday "for Long Island Divided, a series three years in the making that exposed an endemic pattern of discrimination by suburban realtors steering homebuyers of color away from white enclaves in violation of federal and state law. It drew promises of action from officials at every level of government."
Local reporting Brian M. Rosenthal The New York Times "for unearthing a pernicious scheme by unscrupulous lenders to drive up the price of taxi medallions and turn huge profits by selling them to unsophisticated cab drivers with loans they could never repay, leading borrowers into financial ruin so devastating at least nine committed suicide."
International reporting Mark Scheffler and Malachy Browne and the Visual Investigations Team The New York Times "for using local plane spottings, satellite imagery, cockpit recordings, and Google Earth tools to map and geolocate the attacks to establish that Russian pilots in Syria bombed four hospitals, a busy commercial street, and a refugee camp, killing scores of civilians. It was one of a number of wide-ranging coups the team pulled off combining advanced technology with ground-level reporting in Venezuela, Afghanistan, Libya, North Korea and Hong Kong."
Financial reporting Noah Buhayar and Caleb Melby and David Kocieniewski Bloomberg News "for groundbreaking stories on how wealthy, well-connected individuals perverted the stated intention of "opportunity zone" incentives in the 2017 federal tax code for their own profit. The program was aimed at spurring economic growth in depressed areas, but some developers reaped tax breaks by using it for such high-end projects as a long-planned $4 billion luxury North Miami development and the construction of a Ritz-Carlton hotel in downtown Portland, Oregon."
Business reporting Dominic Gates and Mike Baker and Steve Militech and Lewis Kamb The Seattle Times "for first exposing the cooperative arrangements between Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration that led to the approval of design changes in 737 Max jets blamed for two crashes, killing 346. Times reporters traced FAA approval of the flawed flight control system to its decision to defer to Boeing's own safety analysis, which they attributed to pressure from leaders of the company and the agency to speed production and avoid adding costs."
Environmental reporting Helena Bottemiller Evich Politico "for describing how a politicized Department of Agriculture ignored its own climate action plan, devoted a minuscule portion of its budget to climate change, which it acknowledges is the gravest threat to food production, and buried a study warning of lost nutrients in rice, the leading source of nutrition for 600 million people, provoking a highly regarded scientist to quit in disgust."
Military reporting Craig Whitlock The Washington Post "forcing the release of interviews conducted about the Afghan War as part of a five-year, $11 million federal Lessons Learned project. After Whitlock received more than 2,000 documents, including some initially withheld, he puzzled out key redactions before producing "The Afghanistan Papers," which demonstrated that "senior U.S. officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan throughout the 18-year campaign, making rosy pronouncements they knew to be false and hiding unmistakable evidence the war had become unwinnable.""
Justice reporting Lisa Gartner The Philadelphia Inquirer "for Beaten, Not Silenced, which exposed a pattern of violent physical abuse of boys housed at the Glen Mills Schools, a 193-year-old reformatory in suburban Delaware County. Gartner's reporting was so devastating that within days state officials ordered Glen Mills closed and pledged to do a better job of monitoring conditions at juvenile justice facilities across Pennsylvania."
Political reporting Chance Swaim and Jonathan Shorman and Dion Lefler The Wichita Eagle "for turning journalistic intuition into deep dives into public records that revealed municipal misconduct."
Luke Broadwater and staff The Baltimore Sun
Magazine reporting Lizzie Presser ProPublica and The New Yorker "for The Dispossessed, an account of how speculators use legal loopholes associated with "heirs' property" laws in the South to seize black-owned ancestral lands, uprooting lifelong residents who assume their homes and property have been passed down to them. Especially poignant was Presser's portrait of two brothers in a North Carolina coastal town jailed for nearly eight years for refusing to leave."
Television reporting John Sudworth BBC News "for Inside China's Hidden Camps, which documented the reality of camps authorities established in Xinjiang province to indoctrinate hundreds of thousands of Muslims in an effort to erase their religion and culture. Allowed by authorities to visit one camp depicted as a model of agreeability, Sudworth used satellite photos, leaked documents and interviews with forlorn parents separated from their children to paint a very different picture."
Special Award Nikole Hannah-Jones and contributors The New York Times "for The 1619 Project, a supplement published on the 400th anniversary of the advent of American slavery, using essays by journalists and scholars to explore the role of slavery in history and its enduring effects in contemporary American society. A powerful introduction by Hannah-Jones, the project's creator and driving force, examined efforts of black Americans to advance the nation's expressed ideals of democracy, liberty and equality in the face of centuries of oppression and exclusion."
2018 Special Award David Ignatius and Karen Attiah The Washington Post "for eloquence and resolve in demanding accountability in the wake of the gruesome murder of Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi"
Madeleine Baran and Samara Freemark APM Reports "for 'In the Dark: Season Two,' a compelling case for the innocence of a death-row inmate tried and convicted six times for a quadruple murder in 1996."
Local Television Reporting Award Joe Bruno WSOC-TV in Charlotte, N.C. "for stories on ballot tampering in a rural North Carolina Congressional race."
Foreign Television Reporting Award Jane Ferguson PBS NewsHour "for her graphic portrayal of a humanitarian disaster resulting from the proxy war between forces allied with Saudi Arabia and Iran in northern Yemen."
Magazine Reporting Award Ben Taub The New Yorker "for a firsthand account of 'Iraq’s Post-ISIS Campaign of Revenge' by minority Sunnis against Shiites in sham trials sometimes leading to summary executions."
Environmental Reporting Award Larry C. Price, reporters for Undark Magazine Undark Magazine "for “Breathtaking,” a global examination of the sources and effects of deadly particulate pollutants."
Education Reporting Craig Harris, Anne Ryman, Alden Woods and Justin Price The Arizona Republics "no-bid contracts and political chicanery that provided windfall profits for investors in a number of prominent Arizona charter schools"
Immigration Reporting Award staff of ProPublica ProPublica "for “Zero Tolerance,” exposing the separation of young children from families as a tactic to deter border crossings and uncovering harsh conditions in federal shelters."
Justice Reporting Award Julie K. Brown Miami Herald for “Perversion of Justice,” exposing how a federal prosecutor helped a hedge-fund billionaire evade punishment for sexually abusing dozens of under-age girls.
Medical Reporting Award Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering and Amy Herdy Netflix for “The Bleeding Edge,” a documentary aired by Netflix linking the failure of risk-prone medical devices to lax regulation.
Political Reporting Award David Barstow, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner The New York Times "for tracing President Donald Trump’s wealth to an inherited fortune and 'dubious tax schemes.'"
Local Reporting Award Kathleen McGrory and Neil Bedi Tampa Bay Times for “Heartbroken,” a series on deadly missteps at a children's hospital.
State Reporting Award Jeff Adelson, Gordon Russell, John Simerman The Advocate of New Orleans "for a series spurring elimination of split jury verdicts that victimized black defendants"
National Reporting Award staff of The New York Times New York Times " for demonstrating how social media giants promulgated hatemongering and misinformation to maximize profits"
Foreign Reporting Award Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo Reuters for “Massacre in Myanmar,” exposing the execution of 10 Rohingya Muslims in a remote village.
Career Award Bill Siemering NPR
2017 Special Award staff The New York Times and The Washington Post " uncovering connections between Trump campaign officials and well-connected Russians "
Foreign Reporting Award Iona Craig The Intercept "documenting the destruction and civilian casualties of a covert U.S. Navy SEAL raid upon a remote village in Yemen"
National Reporting Award Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey & Ronan Farrow The New York Times and The New Yorker "exposing the decades-long sexual predation of the movie producer Harvey Weinstein and the campaign to cover it up"
Local Reporting Award Melissa Segura BuzzFeed "drawing attention to innocent men framed for murder by a Chicago police detective"
Immigration Reporting Award Maria Perez The Naples Daily News "exposing the practice of Florida companies hiring undocumented workers in dangerous jobs"
Antonia Farzan and Joseph Flaherty Phoenix New Times "revealing that Motel 6 motels in Phoenix, Arizona, provided nightly guest rosters to ICE"
Financial Reporting Award The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists "mining a trove of 13.4 million records to reveal how corporate giants and prominent wealthy individuals use financial manipulations to evade taxes."
Medical Reporting Award Nina Martin & Renee Montagne ProPublica & NPR "explaining the reasons and portraying the tragedies behind an alarming increase in maternal deaths"
Political Reporting Award Stephanie McCrummen and Beth Reinhard The Washington Post "digging into the past of U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore of Alabama "
Magazine Reporting Award Ben Taub The New Yorker "for showing the humanitarian devastation caused by the shrinkage of Lake Chad in Africa"
Photography Award Adam Dean and Tomas Munita The New York Times "capturing the plight of the Rohingya people desperately fleeing burning villages"
National Television Reporting Award Elle Reeve VICE News "on-the-scene up-close coverage of the protests in Charlottesville, Virginia"
Foreign Television Reporting Award Nima Elbagir and Raja Razek CNN "uncovering a hidden modern-day slave auction of African refugees in Libya."
Public Service Award David Begnaud CBS News "capturing the destructive power Hurricane Maria unleashed on Puerto Rico"
Commentary Award Gail Collins The New York Times
2016 George Polk Career Award Anna Deavere Smith
Foreign Reporting Nicholas Casey and Meridith Kohut The New York Times "for defying government resistance to portray the depths of privation result from Venezuela’s economic collapse."
Political Reporting David Fahrenthold The Washington Post "for a string of stories on matters Presidential candidate Donald Trump had long sought to keep secret, including his foundation’s deceptive activities and the existence of a video in which he bragged about sexually assaulting women."
National Reporting Alec MacGillis ProPublica "for prescient dispatches late in the Presidential campaign citing momentum for Donald Trump"
Local Reporting Darwin Bond Graham and Ali Winston East Bay Express "for exposing a sordid sex scandal inside the Oakland police department involving a teen-aged prostitute that led up the ranks and cost three police chiefs their jobs in a single week."
Financial Reporting The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists "for 'the Panama Papers,' using leaked files to expose billions in hidden investments in offshore companies tied to Syria’s air war, the looting of Africa’s natural resources and Russian associates of Vladimir Putin"
Medical Reporting Lenny Bernstein, Scott Higham and David Fallis The Washington Post "for tracing the DEA’s lax regulation of narcotic painkillers despite a deadly national addiction epidemic to drug industry pressure."
State Reporting Craig Harris The Arizona Republic "for exposing the wholesale termination of women, minority and older state employees, including an award-winning teacher diagnosed with cancer and an African-American correctional officer injured on he job who were both reinstated."
Justice Reporting Christie Thompson and Joseph Shapiro The Marshall Project, National Public Radio "for revealing an oxymoronic abuse of prison inmates in double solitary confinement – sometimes resulting in violence and death."
Sports Reporting Rebecca R. Ruiz The New York Times "for an account of a Russian state-run doping program to enhance the performances of Olympic athletes and evade detection by secretly substituting test samples."
Education Reporting Brian M. Rosenthal The Houston Chronicle "for exposing a statewide quota denying special education services for more than 8.5 percent of students in any of the 1,200 school districts in Texas."
Radio Reporting Robert Lewis WNYC "for questioning New York City’s lax oversight of conflicts of interest among police leading to inappropriate dealings such as a commander’s purchase of discounted property from a distraught woman whose father’s disappearance was under investigation."
Television Reporting A. J. Lagoe, Steve Eckert, and Gary Knox KARE-11 "a series disclosing that the VA deployed unqualified diagnosticians, some not even physicians, to diagnose veterans for traumatic brain injuries."
Magazine Reporting Anand Gopal The Atlantic "a wrenching 9,000-word account of the travails of an Iraqi family caught in the crossfire between Islamic State terrorists and U.S.-backed forces."
Photojournalism Daniel Berehulak The New York Times "depicting the wanton carnage of President Rodrigo Duterte’s murderous drug crackdown in the Philippines."
Documentary Film Nanfu Wang Hooligan Sparrow
2015 George Polk Career Award Simeon Booker Jet
National Reporting The Washington Post The Washington Post "for a series tallying and categorizing Americans shot dead by police over the course of a year"
Military Reporting Nicholas Kulish, Christopher Drew, Matthew Rosenberg, Mark Mazzetti, Serge Kovaleski. John Ismay, Sean Naylor New York Times "for examining allegations that daring Navy SEAL teams operated with little oversight and often used excessive force."
Foreign Reporting Ian Urbina New York Times "for 'The Outlaw Ocean,' a series on lawlessness on the high seas."
Margie Mason, Robin McDowell, Martha Mendoza, Esther Htusan The Associated Press "for 'Seafood Slaves,' on abysmal treatment of seafood workers in Thailand, some held against their will and others buried in unmarked graves"
Justice Reporting Ken Armstrong and T. Christian Miller The Marshall Project and ProPublica for 'An Unbelievable Story of Rape,' vindicating a teenaged rape victim initially charged with filing a false report of the crime."
Medical Reporting Jason Cherkis The Huffington Post "for revealing that pressure from 12-step programs barred many publicly funded addiction treatment centers from prescribing effective medication-assisted therapy."
Radio Reporting Nikole Hannah-Jones This American Life "for 'The Problem We All Live With' aired on “This American Life” examining how parents and politicians contrived to re-segregate a Missouri public school and its impact."
Financial Reporting John Carreyrou The Wall Street Journal "for stories cast doubt on innovative claims by a Silicon Valley blood-testing company."
Legal Reporting Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Michael Corkery, and Robert Gebeloff New York Times "for “Beware the Fine Print,” a series on how arbitration clauses deprive people of their right to settle disputes in court."
Regional Reporting Terrence McCoy The Washington Post "for exposing companies in Maryland and Virginia that convinced unsophisticated victims to accept pennies on the dollar for court-ordered compensation."
Education Reporting Cara Fitzpatrick, Lisa Gartner, and Michael LaForgia The Tampa Bay Times "for tracing a decline in black student success to a 2007 school board decision effectively re-segregating schools."
Photography Andrew Quilty Foreign Policy for 'The Man on the Operating Table,' depicting the devastating effects of an errant U.S. airstrike on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan."
Magazine Reporting Noreen Malone, Jen Kirby and Amanda Demme New York Magazine "for 'Cosby: The Women, An Unwelcome Sisterhood,' a cover story presenting on-the-record accounts of 35 women accusing Bill Cosby of sexual assault."
Local Reporting Jamie Kalven Invisible Institute "for 'Sixteen Shots,' an account published inline by Slate that contradicted the official narrative of the fatal police shooting of a black teenager in Chicago."
Television Reporting Jim Axelrod, Emily Rand CBS News "for 'Compounding Pharmacy Fraud,' revealing how some pharmacies billed insurers for worthless potions and supplements."
Documentary Film Matthew Heineman and Tom Yellin "Cartel Land"
2014 International Reporting Rukmini Callimachi New York Times "for revealing that European nations secretly paid the Islamic State millions of dollars to ransom hostages."
Documentary Film Orwa Nyrabia Proaction Film
Foreign Reporting Rania Abouzeid Politico magazine for “The Jihad Next Door,” an authoritative account of the rise of the Islamic State published online by Politico Magazine.
Health Reporting Adam Nossiter, Norimitsu Onishi, Ben C. Solomon, Sheri Fink, Helene Cooper, and Daniel Berehulak New York Times "for early coverage of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa."
National Reporting Carol Leonnig Washington Post "for series of exclusive reports on serious security lapses and misconduct by the U.S. Secret Service, which filed false and incomplete accounts of the missteps."
Local Reporting

Tim Novak, Chris Fusco, and Carol Marin

Chicago Sun-Times "for reports leading police to reopen a 10-year-old homicide case involving a nephew of former mayor Richard M. Daley."
Business Reporting A consortium of 120 journalists from 58 countries and 42 news organizations International Consortium of Investigative Journalists "for showing inventive methods big companies and wealthy individuals use to avoid paying taxes."
Environmental Reporting Seattle Times "for linking a mudslide that cost 43 lives to corners cut, safeguards disregarded and warnings ignored."
Justice Reporting Julie K. Brown; Michael Schwirtz and Michael Winerip Miami Herald; New York Times "for revealing rampant brutalizing of mentally impaired inmates that caused injury and death."
Magazine Reporting James Verini National Geographic "for an 11,000-word report on the Democratic Republic of the Congo that asked, 'Should the United Nations Wage War to Keep Peace?'"
Military Reporting Denis Wagner Arizona Republic "for disclosing that VA officials in Phoenix and elsewhere won bonuses based on false wait-time data for treatment of veterans, some of whom died awaiting care."
State Reporting Doug Pardue, Glenn Smith, Jennifer Berry Hawes and Natalie Caula Hauff Post and Courier (Charleston, S.C.) "for linking 300 deaths of women in South Carolina to the indifferent response to domestic abuse by authorities."
Television Reporting John Carlos Frey, Marisa Venegas, Solly Granatstein The Investigative Fund, Telemundo, The Weather Channel "for “Dying to Cross,” on the deaths of 400 migrants abandoned in the Texas desert"
Commentary Ta-Nehisi Coates The Atlantic "The Case for Reparations"
Career Award Garry Trudeau Doonesbury
2013 National Security Reporting Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, Laura Poitras The Guardian "for investigative stories on massive NSA surveillance based on top-secret documents disclosed by former intelligence analyst Edward Snowden."
Barton D. Gellman Washington Post
Foreign Reporting Jim Yardley New York Times "for documenting Bangladesh workers’ unsafe conditions and paltry wages at the hands of garment manufacturers with political ties in the aftermath of the Rana Plaza collapse, which claimed more than 1,100 lives. "
National Reporting Eli Saslow Washington Post "for profiling six of the families receiving federal nutrition assistance in a $78 billion program serving 47 million recipients in a program that tripled in scope in a decade."
State Reporting Shawn Boburg The Record "for articles linking a huge traffic jam created by lane closures on an approach to the George Washington Bridge to retribution by Governor Chris Christie’s campaign operatives against a mayor who failed to endorse his reelection."
Local Reporting Andrea Elliott New York Times for “Invisible Child,” a five-part series about one of New York City's 22,000 homeless children.
Justice Reporting Frances Robles, Sharon Otterman, Michael Powell and N. R. Kleinfield New York Times "for uncovering evidence that a Brooklyn homicide detective used false confessions, tainted testimony and coercive tactics to convict dozens of defendants."
Sports Reporting Tim Elfrink Miami New Times "for revealing that some of baseball’s biggest stars received banned performance enhancers from a Florida anti-aging clinic."
Medical Reporting Meg Kissinger Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for a series on the Milwaukee County’s dysfunctional mental health system
Cynthia Hubert

Phillip Reese

Sacramento Bee "for exposing a Las Vegas psychiatric hospital’s practice of exporting patients — 1,500 over five years — to locales across the country via Greyhound bus."
Magazine Reporting Matthieu Aikins Rolling Stone for 'The A-Team Killings,' which made a strong case that a U.S. Army Special Forces unit had executed 10 civilians outside a base in Afghanistan
Political Reporting Rosalind S. Helderman

Laura Vozzella

Carol Leonnig

The Washington Post "for revealing that the Virginia governor and his wife received $165,000 in loans and gifts from an entrepreneur.
Business Reporting Alison Fitzgerald

Daniel Wagner

Lauren Kyger

John Dunbar

Center for Public Integrity "for 'After the Meltdown,' a series demonstrating that the federal government failed to call any major Wall Street figure to account for financial crisis and many had resumed the sort of reckless investing that plunged the nation into The Great Recession."
Television Reporting Michael Kirk

Jim Gilmore

Mike Wiser

Steve Fainaru

Mark Fainaru-Wada

PBS Frontline "for 'League of Denial,' tracing longstanding NFL efforts to quash evidence linking head injuries to high instances of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in former players."
Local Television Reporting Noah Pranksy WTSP "for disclosing how government officials and a contractor bilked drivers in Florida out of millions in fines by shortening yellow lights at intersections."
2012 Political Reporting David Corn Mother Jones "for obtaining a recording of presidential candidate Mitt Romney confiding that 47 percent of voters 'dependent upon government' would oppose him 'no matter what.'"
Foreign Reporting David Barboza New York Times "for 'The Princelings,' tracing a $2.7 billion fortune accumulated by Prime Minister Wen Jiabao’s family."
Staff of Bloomberg News Bloomberg News "for 'China Betrayed,' on the wealth of a municipal official ousted after the murder of a British businessman
Television News Reporting Holly Williams

Andrew Portch

CBS News "for coverage of Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng, who fled to the West after years of house arrest."
War Reporting David Enders

Austin Tice

McClatchy Newspaper "Inside Syria" Correspondent Team

McClatchy Newspapers "for chronicling the complexities of the civil war in Syria."
Video Reporting Tracey Shelton GlobalPost "for reports on the Syrian war’s human toll including one on a 4-year sole survivor of an entire family."
National Reporting John Hechinger

Janet Lorin

Bloomberg News "for 'Indentured Students,' a series revealing that the U.S. paid $1 billion in commissions to student loan debt collectors who often misled borrowers."
Local Reporting Gina Barton Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "for an investigative report on the death of a man in police custody, leading to its re-categorization is a homicide and a medical examiner’s resignation."
Magazine Reporting Sarah Stillman The New Yorker "for 'The Throwaways,' an account of how authorities jeopardized and abandoned teen-aged drug informants."
Justice Reporting Sam Dolnick New York Times "for 'Unlocked,' exposing gang activity, drug use, lax security and decrepit conditions at New Jersey halfway houses owned by a crony of Governor Chris Christie."
State Reporting Ryan Gabrielson California Watch "for exposing how a special police force for developmental centers was failing to solve crimes against the disabled residents."
Medical Reporting Peter Whoriskey Washington Post "for 'Biased Research, Big Profits,' a series on pharmaceutical industry payoffs to doctors to promote misleading findings sometimes endangering patients."
Business Reporting David Barstow

Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab

New York Times "for 'Wal-Mart Abroad,' demonstrating how the giant retailer used bribery to fuel overseas growth."
Education Reporting Colin Woodard Maine Sunday Telegram "for detailing how online education companies steered development of Maine’s digital education policies."
Documentary Television Reporting Martin Smith

Michael Kirk

Marcela Gaviria

Jim Gilmore

Mike Wiser

Frontline for 'Money, Power and Wall Street,' an inside look into the derivation and impact of the global economic crisis.
2011 Career Award Ronnie Dugger
Radio Reporting Ira Glass This American Life "for 'Very Tough Love,' a report on excessive punishments ordered by a Georgia drug court judge."
Legal Reporting Thomas Farragher,

Marcella Bombardieri,

Jonathan Saltzman,

Matt Carroll,

Darren Durlach

Boston Globe "for delving into a high acquittal rate in Massachusetts drunk driving cases."
Television Reporting Brian Ross,

Anna Schecter

ABC News "for 'Peace Corps: A Trust Betrayed,' accusing the Peace Corps of covering up its failure to protect a woman slain in West Africa and other volunteers."
Medical Reporting Lance Williams,

Christina Jewett,

Stephen K. Doig

California Watch "for a report on how a hospital chain used false diagnoses of rare conditions to over-bill Medicare."
International Reporting Ben Elgin,

Alan Katz,

Vernon Silver

Bloomberg News "for revealing how Western companies sold surveillance technology to repressive governments to use against their opponents."
Local Reporting A.M. Sheehan,

Matt Hongoltz-Hetling

Advertiser Democrat (Oxford County, Maine) "for a report on Maine’s failure to address abysmal and unsafe conditions in government-subsidized housing."
National Reporting staff Wall Street Journal "for a series on ways federal officials and well-connected investors exploited insider stock trading."
Metropolitan Reporting Matt Apuzzo
Adam Goldman
Chris Hawley
Eileen Sullivan
Associated Press "for a revealing look at expansive New York City Police intelligence operations including the targeting of mosques"
Foreign Reporting Jeffrey Gettleman
Tyler Hicks
New York Times "for coverage of fighting in South Sudan and Somalia, where Shabbab militants prevented starving people from fleeing."
Military Reporting C. J. Chivers New York Times "for coverage of wars in Libya and Afghanistan, especially dispatches from Misurata where he authenticated Libyan forces’ indiscriminate use of brutal weapons."
Magazine Reporting Jane Mayer New Yorker for 'The Secret Sharer,' a case against the prosecution of an official for espionage for leaking information that led prosecutors to drop all major charges.
Television Documentary May Ying Welsh,

Hassan Mahfood

Al Jazeera English for 'Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark,'
Sports Reporting Sara Ganim Patriot-News (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) "for revelatory coverage of Penn State’s cover-up of a coach’s pedophilia, allowing him to abuse more victims."
2010 Career Award Sandy Close
Television Reporting ProPublica

PBS,

Frontline

New Orleans Times-Picayune

"for 'Law and Disorder,' examining claims police shot 10 people, killing four, in post-Katrina New Orleans."
Radio Reporting Daniel Zwerdling,

T. Christian Miller

National Public Radio; ProPublica "for 'Brain Wars,' which found that the U. S. military provided inadequate diagnoses and treatment of traumatic brain injuries suffered by thousands of soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan."
Commentary Juan Gonzalez Daily News (New York) for columns on a failed $700 million overhaul of New York City's electronic payroll system and the mayor’s failure to pick up on persistent signs of mismanagement.
Military Reporting Dexter Filkins,

Mark Mazzetti

New York Times "for a sobering behind-the-scenes look at U. S. conduct in Afghanistan"
Criminal Justice Reporting John Diedrich,

Ben Poston

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "for 'Wiped Clean,' a series revealing how infrequently the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives revokes the licenses of lawbreaking gun dealers."
Education Reporting Bloomberg News "for 'Education Inc.,' a series showing that for-profit colleges recruited unlikely students for dubious programs to cash in on $26.5 in annual federal financial aid."
Metropolitan Reporting Amy Brittain,

Mark Mueller

Star-Ledger (New Jersey) "for 'Strong at Any Cost,' a series on New Jersey police officers and firefighters’ rampant use of steroids, often obtained with fake prescriptions."
Local Reporting Jeff Gottlieb

Ruben Vives

Staff of the LA Times

Los Angeles Times "for exposing conditions in Bell, a small working-class city near LA rife with corruption and exorbitance – an administrator was paid $800,000 a year – prompting charges against eight past and present municipal officials."
National Reporting Dana Priest,

William M. Arkin

Washington Post for 'Top Secret America,' detailing the proliferation of a huge ecosystem of military, intelligence and corporate interests spawned after 9/11.
Foreign Reporting Clifford J. Levy,

Ellen Barry

New York Times "for 'Above the Law,' a series that examined corruption and abuse of power in Russia two decades after the fall of Communism,"
Environmental Reporting Associated Press "for coverage of the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico"
Magazine Reporting Michael Hastings Rolling Stone "for 'The Runaway General,' a profile of General Stanley McChrystal that led President Obama to dismiss him as commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.
2009 Career Award Gene Roberts
Foreign Reporting David Rohde New York Times for 'Held by the Taliban,' a series detailing Rohde's own seven months in captivity."
Videography people recording the death of Neda Agha-Soltan
National Reporting Mark Pittman,

Bob Ivry,

Alison Fitzgerald,

Craig Torres

Bloomberg News "for articles challenging the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve Board to open their books on trillions of dollars in bailout aid that went to financial institutions."
State Reporting Raquel Rutledge Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "for portraying Wisconsin’s $350-million child-care system as a hotbed of criminal activity that repeatedly endangers children."
Local Reporting George Pawlaczyk,

Beth Hundsdorfer

Belleville News-Democrat (Belleville, Illinois) "or 'Trapped in Tamms' a series on harsh conditions at an Illinois “supermax” prison where inmates, many mentally ill, were held in solitary confinement 23 hours a day for more than 10 years."
Sports Reporting Alan Schwarz New York Times "for a report on long-term dangers of concussions and the National Football League’s flawed response to the issue."
International Television Reporting Dan Rivers,

Kit Swartz,

Kocha Olarn,

Theerasak Nitipiched

CNN "for tracking the nightmarish existence of Rohingya refugees in southeast Asia."
National Television Reporting Steve Kroft,

Leslie Cockburn

CBS News,

60 Minutes

"for 'The Price of Oil,' which detailed Wall Street’s growing influence on speculative oil prices.
Business Reporting Kathy Chu USA Today "for 'Credit Trap,' which documented how banks and other credit card issuers reap tens of billions of dollars in profit each year from steep fees and unscrupulous practices."
Military Reporting Charlie Reed,

Kevin Baron,

Leo Shane III

Stars and Stripes "for 'Shaping the Message,' a series that revealed that the Pentagon had used a public relations company to profile journalists and steer them toward positive coverage of the war in Afghanistan"
Magazine Reporting David Grann New Yorker "for 'Trial by Fire,' debunking expert testimony in a 1991 arson case as pseudo science in presenting what may be the first thoroughly documented case of the execution of an innocent man under the modern American judicial system."
Environmental Reporting Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica "for examining possible carcinogenic effects of natural gas drilling by hydraulic fracturing."
2008 Career Award Gay Talese
Foreign Reporting Barry Bearak, Celia W. Dugger New York Times "whose coverage of violence in Zimbabwe after the disputed re-election of President Robert Mugabe was unimpeded by the four-day jailing of Bearak."
International Reporting Paul Salopek Chicago Tribune "for articles on rendition of suspects and other U.S. antiterrorist activity in remote areas on the Horn of Africa in Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Sudan and Eritrea."
National Reporting David Barstow New York Times for 'Message Machine,' a two-part series documenting how retired military officers turned news analysts mouthed Pentagon talking points and plugged defense contractors who employed them as consultants
Military Reporting Eric Nalder Seattle Post-Intelligencer "for 'Demoted to Private: America's Military Housing Disaster,' a series revealing that the Pentagon awarded a billion dollars in contracts to politically connected contractors in a dubious effort to privatize military housing construction."
Local Reporting Jim Schaefer,

M.L. Elrick

Detroit Free Press "for revealing Detroit’s mayor used $8.4 million in city funds to settle a whistle-blower case in exchange for destroying evidence of his affair with an aide and lied under oath about it, leading to his resignation and jailing.
Labor Reporting Paul Pringle Los Angeles Times "for 'Union Boss Under Fire,' an account of how a union local representing 160,000 mostly low-wage workers paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to companies owned by relatives of its president, who was subsequently removed from office."
Justice Reporting Ryan Gabrielson,

Paul Giblin

East Valley Tribune (Mesa, Arizona) ”a five-part series on Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's extra-legal campaign against illegal immigrants"
Magazine Reporting Richard Behar Fast Company "for 'China Storms Africa,' published in the business magazine Fast Company, detailing China’s drive to invest in sub-Saharan African nations to acquire raw materials for manufacturing."
Environmental Reporting Susanne Rust,

Meg Kissinger

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "for a series on the failure of federal agencies to monitor and regulate potentially harmful toxins found in everyday materials from microwave-safe plastics to baby bottles."
Sports Reporting Ken Armstrong,

Nick Perry

Seattle Times for 'Victory and Ruins,' a series revealing that two dozen members of the 2001 University of Washington Rose Bowl team were allowed to play despite their arrests, some for violent felonies.
Television Reporting Scott Pelley,

Solly Granatstein,

Nicole Young

CBS News,

60 Minutes

"for 'The Wasteland,' exposing how U.S. companies paid to recycle electronic waste dumped it in China, leading to ecological despoliation and health concerns."
Documentary Reporting Stefan Forbes Independent producer "for 'Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story,' a portrait of a multi-faceted Republican strategist whose controversial tactics continued to influence politics long after his death".
Radio Reporting Alex Blumberg This American Life "for 'The Giant Pool of Money,' a collaborative explanation of the complex chain of events that led to the subprime mortgage crisis."
2007 Career Award John McPhee
Television Reporting Jim Sciutto,

Angus Hines,

Tom Murphy

ABC News,

ABC World News with Charles Gibson

"who posed as tourists to secretly tape violent government crackdowns on protestors in Myanmar."
Political Reporting Barton D. Gellman,

Jo Becker

Washington Post "for a series on Vice President Dick Cheney's role as the architect of tortuous interrogation, military tribunals and other hard-line U.S. policies."
Foreign Reporting Leila Fadel McClatchy Company "for chilling, first-hand accounts of ethnically inspired violence and murder in Iraq."
Environmental Reporting Shai Oster Wall Street Journal "for disclosing how China’s $22 billion Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River devastated villages, causing landslides and displaced 4 million residents."
Medical Reporting Charles A. Duhigg New York Times "for exposing unethical practices by nursing homes, long-term care insurers and allied businesses and investors that put the elderly at risk."
Legal Reporting Josh Marshall Talking Points Memo "for reports uncovering politically motivated dismissals of United States attorneys."
Consumer Reporting Chicago Tribune "for accounts of children suffering injury and death from exposure to lead-tainted toys, defective cribs and other dangerous products, many imported from China."
Book Award Jeremy Scahill for Blackwater Nation Books
Magazine Reporting Joshua A. Kors The Nation for articles in The Nation, on the U.S. Army's denial of disability and medical benefits to thousands of Iraqi War veterans, asserting they had pre-existing 'personality disorders.'
Financial Reporting Edward Chancellor Institutional Investor for 'Ponzi Nation,' sounding an alarm months before the crisis in financial markets over subprime mortgages and poorly regulated hedge funds emerged.
Economic Reporting Charlotte Observer "for a prescient series tying the area's high rate of housing foreclosures to subprime mortgage loans."
State Reporting Jerry W. Mitchell Jackson Clarion-Ledger "for revealing that outbreaks of tuberculosis and syphilis and an alarming increase in infant mortality went unreported by the Mississippi Department of Health."
Local Reporting Chauncey W. Bailey, Jr. Oakland Post "slain while investigating a business linked to kidnapping, rape, torture, and several killings, now including his own."
2006 Documentary Television Spike Lee,

Sam Pollard

HBO "for When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts on HBO on the human misery and paltry government response in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina"
Foreign Reporting Lydia Polgreen New York Times "for coverage of a under-reported war in Darfur in western Sudan and Chad that killed 200,000 and displaced 2.5 million."
Network Television Reporting Lisa Myers,

Adam Ciralsky

NBC News,

NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams

"for detailing the awarding of a $70 million defense contract to a U.S. company despite a far cheaper alternative developed in Israel."
Military Reporting Lisa Chedekel,

Matthew Kauffman

Hartford Courant for "Mentally Unfit, Forced to Fight,' a four-part series on the high rate of suicide among American troops.
Medical Reporting Robert Little Baltimore Sun "for 'Dangerous Remedy,' a series on an experimental blood-coagulating drug administered to more than 1,000 soldiers despite links to fatal clots in the heart, lungs and brain."
Environmental Reporting Kenneth R. Weiss,

Usha Lee McFarling

Los Angeles Times "for 'Altered Oceans,' a five-part series linking rashes among Australian fishermen, brain-damaged sea lions in California and red tides in Florida to damaging pollution."
Business Reporting Charles Forelle,

James Bandler,

Mark Maremont

Wall Street Journal "for exposing backdating of stock options to enhance executive compensation prompting resignations and charges."
National Reporting Jeff Kosseff,

Bryan Denson,

Les Zaitz

Oregonian "for articles chronicling the failures in a $2.25 billion federal program intended to help people with disabilities find jobs but instead enriched executives at the expense of taxpayers and underpaid workers."
Metropolitan Reporting Debbie Cenziper Miami Herald "for 'House of Lies,' an investigative report documenting mismanagement in the Miami-Dade Housing Agency allowing developers and consultants to amass fortunes while families suffered in shelters and rat-infested buildings."
Local Reporting staff Lakefront Outlook (Chicago) "for revealing that a $19.5 million community center hailed by a city alderman as a local treasure was a deficit-ridden political plum staffed by her family and friends."
Political Reporting Ray Ring High Country News "for revealing that referendums campaigns in six Western states to roll back environmental protections were financed by a wealthy libertarian real estate investor."
Radio Reporting Producers University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism;

American Public Media;

Living on Earth

'Early Signs: Reports From a Warming Planet,' a documentary on global impacts of climate change produced by students at Cal-Berkeley and aired by “Living on Earth,” American Public Media.
2005 Career Award Frederick Wiseman
International Reporting Cam Simpson, José Moré Chicago Tribune
Television Reporting Brian Ross, Richard Esposito ABC News
National Reporting Dana Priest Washington Post
Foreign Reporting Joe Stephens, David B. Ottaway Washington Post
Commentary Frank Rich, Barry Meier New York Times
Metropolitan Reporting staff New Orleans Times-Picayune
Justice Reporting Jerry Mitchell Jackson Clarion-Ledger
Health Reporting David Evans, Michael Smith, Liz Willen Bloomberg News
Political Reporting Marcus Stern, Jerry Kammer, Dean Calbreath Copley News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune
Local Reporting A. C. Thompson San Francisco Bay Guardian
Book Award Victor S. Navasky Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Radio Reporting JoAnn Mar Independent producer
2004 Career Award Bill Moyers
Foreign Reporting Paisley Dodds Associated Press
War Reporting Dexter Filkins New York Times
Sports Reporting Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada San Francisco Chronicle
Television Reporting Diane Sawyer, Robbie Gordon ABC News, Primetime Live
National Reporting Walt Bogdanich New York Times
Military Reporting Diana B. Henriques New York Times
Economic Reporting Ellen E. Schultz, Theo Francis Wall Street Journal
Magazine Reporting Seymour Hersh The New Yorker
Labor Reporting Justin Pritchard Associated Press
Regional Reporting four reporters and a photographer The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, California)
State Reporting John Hill, Dorothy Korber Sacramento Bee
Local Reporting Tim Novak, Steve Warmbir Chicago Sun-Times
2003 Foreign Reporting Somini Sengupta New York Times
Radio Reporting Anne Garrels National Public Radio
Photojournalism Carolyn Cole Los Angeles Times
Economics Reporting Nancy Cleeland, Abigail Goldman, Evelyn Iritani, Tyler Marshall Los Angeles Times
Business Reporting Pete Engardio, Aaron Bernstein, Manjeet Kripalani Business Week
Labor Reporting David Barstow, Lowell Bergman, Neil Docherty, Linden MacIntyre, David Rummel New York Times; PBS, Frontline; Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
National Reporting Cam Simpson, Flynn McRoberts, Liz Sly Chicago Tribune
Internet Reporting Center for Public Integrity
Magazine Reporting Michael Hudson, Bill Barrow, Mary Kane, Taylor Loyal, Kenneth Harris, Keith Ernst, Robert Manning Southern Exposure
State Reporting Dave Altimari, Jon Lender, Edmund H. Mahony Hartford Courant
Education Reporting Daniel Golden Wall Street Journal
Local Reporting Duff Wilson, Brian Joseph, Sheila Farr Seattle Times
Television Reporting Andrew Smith, Liviu Tipuriță CNN, CNN Presents
Career Award F. Gilman Spencer New York Daily News
2002 Career Award Morley Safer CBS News
Foreign Reporting Anthony Shadid Boston Globe
National Reporting reporters and editors Boston Globe
Regional Reporting Clifford J. Levy New York Times
Health Care Reporting Walt Bogdanich, Barry Meier, Mary Williams Walsh New York Times
International Reporting Sonia Nazario, Don Bartletti Los Angeles Times
Environmental Reporting Debbie Salamone, Ramsey Campbell, Robert Sargent Orlando Sentinel
Criminal Justice Reporting Michael Luo Associated Press
Financial Reporting Ellen E. Schultz, Theo Francis Wall Street Journal
Medical Reporting Stephen Kiernan, Cadence Mertz Burlington Free Press (Vermont)
Magazine Reporting Arnold S. Relman, Marcia Angell New Republic
Local Reporting Jason Riley, R. G. Dunlop Louisville Courier-Journal
Television Reporting Phil Williams, Bryan Staples WTVF (Nashville)
Cultural Criticism Susan Sontag New Yorker
2001 Television and Radio Reporting Stephen Evans BBC World and BBC World Service
Foreign Reporting Barry Bearak New York Times
National Reporting New York Times
Magazine Reporting Bernard Lewis New Yorker
Book Award Joan Didion Political Fictions
Medical Reporting Duff Wilson, David Heath Seattle Times
Financial Reporting Susan Pulliam, Randall Smith Wall Street Journal
Metropolitan Reporting Bill Theobald, Bonnie Harris Indianapolis Star
International Reporting Sudarsan Raghavan, Sumana Chatterjee Knight Ridder
Regional Reporting Jesse A. Hamilton, Stephanie Earls, Tom Roeder, Mark Morey Yakima Herald-Republic (Yakima, Washington)
Local Reporting Heidi Evans, Dave Saltonstall Daily News (New York)
Environmental Reporting Lisa Davis San Francisco Weekly
Career Award Edna Buchanan Miami Herald
2000 Magazine Reporting Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele Time
Book Award Laurie Garrett Betrayal of Trust
Career Award John B. Oakes The New York Times
National Reporting Michael Grunwald Washington Post
Transportation Reporting Scott McCartney Wall Street Journal
Local Television Reporting Anna Werner, David Raziq, Chris Henao KHOU-TV (Houston)
Network Television Reporting John Larson, Allan Maraynes, Lynne Dale, Neal Shapiro, Andy Lehren NBC News, Dateline
Political Reporting Virginia Ellis Los Angeles Times
Statewide Reporting Kevin Corcoran, Joe Fahy Indianapolis Star
Healthcare Reporting Sam Hodges, William Rabb Mobile Register (Alabama)
Foreign Reporting Alma Guillermoprieto New York Review of Books
Special Award New York Times
1999 Foreign Reporting Paul Watson Los Angeles Times
Television Foreign Reporting Giselle Portenier, Olenka Frenkiel, Fiona Murch BBC News
International Reporting Sang-hun Choe, Charles J. Hanley, Martha Mendoza, Randy Herschaft Associated Press
National Reporting Jason DeParle New York Times
Regional Reporting Todd Richissin, Andre Chung Baltimore Sun
Criminal Justice Reporting Ken Armstrong, Steve Mills Chicago Tribune
Local Reporting Kevin Carmody Daily Southtown (Illinois)
Local Television Reporting The "I" Team WWOR (New Jersey)
Editorial Writing New York Daily News
Financial Reporting Ellen E. Schultz Wall Street Journal
Medical Reporting Andrea Gerlin Philadelphia Inquirer
Special Award National Security Archive
Career Award Studs Terkel
1998 Book Award Philip Gourevitch New Yorker
Career Award Russell Baker New York Times
Commentary Juan Gonzalez Daily News (New York)
Economic Reporting Mary Jordan, Keith Richburg, Kevin Sullivan Washington Post
Environmental Reporting Gardiner Harris, R. G. Dunlop Louisville Courier-Journal
Foreign Reporting Tracy Wilkinson Los Angeles Times
International Reporting Alix M. Freedman Wall Street Journal
Legal Reporting Joe Stephens Kansas City Star
Local Reporting Clifford J. Levy New York Times
Medical Reporting Robert Whitaker, Dolores Kong Boston Globe
National Reporting Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele Time
Radio Reporting Amy Goodman, Jeremy Scahill Pacifica Radio, Democracy Now!
Television Reporting Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz ABC News, 20/20
1997 Career Award Pittsburgh Courier
Foreign Reporting Laurie Garrett Newsday
Network TV Reporting Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz ABC News, Primetime Live
Military Affairs Reporting Dayton Daily News
Medical Reporting Wall Street Journal
Business Reporting Kurt Eichenwald, Martin Gottlieb New York Times
National Reporting Keith Bradsher New York Times
Local Reporting Pensacola News Journal
Environmental Reporting Will Englund, Gary Cohn, Perry Thorsvik Baltimore Sun
Book Award Horst Faas, Tim Page, Requiem Random House
Sports Reporting Kansas City Star
International Reporting Michael Dobbs Washington Post
Magazine Reporting Adam Gopnik New Yorker
1996 Criticism Award Blair Kamin Chicago Tribune
National TV Reporting Matt Meagher, Tim Peek Inside Edition
Economics Reporting New York Times
National Reporting Elizabeth Marchak Cleveland Plain Dealer
Political Reporting Los Angeles Times
Cultural Reporting Chuck Philips Los Angeles Times
Magazine Reporting Anne-Marie Cusac The Progressive
Local Reporting Kevin Collison Buffalo News
Transportation Reporting Byron Acohido Seattle Times
Foreign Reporting John F. Burns New York Times
Foreign TV Reporting Christiane Amanpour, Anita Pratap CNN
1995 Career Award John K. Cooley ABC News
Foreign Reporting David Rohde Christian Science Monitor
National Reporting Michael Weisskopf, David Maraniss Washington Post
Local Reporting Elizabeth Llorente The Record (Bergen County, New Jersey)
Metropolitan Reporting Frank Bruni, Nina Bernstein, Joyce Purnick, Lizette Alverez New York Times
Magazine Reporting Richard Behar Fortune
Education Reporting Steve Stecklow Wall Street Journal
Business Reporting Kurt Eichenwald New York Times
Health Care Reporting Chris Adams New Orleans Times-Picayune
Medical Reporting Orange County Register (California)
Local Television Reporting Tom Grant KREM-TV (Spokane, Washington)
Consumer Reporting Lea Thompson, Jack Cloherty, Sandra Surles NBC News, Dateline
Network TV Reporting Jim Clancy CNN
1994 Magazine Reporting Allan Nairn The Nation
Medical Reporting Dave Davis, Joan Mazzolini Cleveland Plain Dealer
Education Reporting Olive Talley Dallas Morning News
Environmental Reporting Jim Lynch, Karen Dorn Steele Spokesman-Review (Spokane)
Political Reporting Joe Stephens Kansas City Star
Local Reporting Sonia Nazario Los Angeles Times
Metropolitan Reporting David Armstrong, Shelley Murphy, Stephan Kurkjian Boston Globe
National Reporting Joel Brinkley, Deborah Sontag, Stephen Engelberg New York Times
Foreign Reporting Barbara Demick Philadelphia Inquirer
Television Documentary Steven Emerson, Martin Koughan SAE Productions Jihad in America,” aired on PBS
Network Television reporting John Martin, Walt Bogdanich, Keith Summa ABC News, Day One
Career Award Philip Hamburger New Yorker
1993 Medical Reporting Larry Keller, Fred Schulte Sun-Sentinel
Magazine Reporting Oliver Sacks New Yorker
Business Reporting Paul Nyden Charleston Gazette
Foreign Reporting Keith Richburg 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 Los Angeles Times
Regional Reporting Isabel Wilkerson New York Times
Radio Commentary Daniel Schorr National Public Radio
Book David Remnick for Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
Career Award Richard Dudman St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Television Reporting Christiane Amanpour CNN
1992 Local Reporting Los Angeles Times
National Reporting Gregory Vistica San Diego Union-Tribune
Foreign Reporting Roy Gutman Newsday
Legal Reporting Marianne Lavelle, Marcia Coyle, Claudia MacLachian National Law Journal
Magazine Reporting Lawrence Weschler New Yorker
Health Reporting Seth Rosenfeld San Francisco Examiner
Environmental Reporting John Thor Dahlburg Los Angeles Times
Photography Carlos M. Guerrero El Nuevo Herald
Radio Reporting Tom Gjelten National Public Radio
National TV Reporting Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz NBC News, Dateline
Foreign TV Reporting Chris Wallace, Neal Shapiro, Anthony Radziwill ABC News, Primetime Live
Social Commentary Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York Times op-ed
Career Award Herbert Mitgang New York Times
1991 Radio Reporting Nina Totenberg National Public Radio
Local Television Christopher Scholl KWWL (Iowa)
National Television Glenn Silber, Robert Krulwich, David Fanning, Sharon Tiller PBS, Frontline; Center for Investigative Reporting
Cultural Reporting Konstantin Akinsha, Grigorii Kozlov ARTnews
Special Award Andrew Schneider, Mary Pat Flaherty Pittsburgh Press
Education Reporting Jeff Gottlieb San Jose Mercury News
Economic Reporting Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele Philadelphia Inquirer
War Reporting Patrick J. Sloyan Newsday
Local Reporting Holly A. Taylor Berkshire Eagle
Regional Reporting Dan Barry, John Sullivan, Ira Chinoy Providence Journal-Bulletin
National Reporting Jeff Taylor, Mike McGraw Kansas City Star
Foreign Reporting Francis X. Clines New York Times
Foreign Reporting Barbara Crossette New York Times
Career Award Claude Fox Sitton
1990 Foreign Reporting Caryle Murphy Washington Post
National Reporting Susan Rasky, David E. Rosenbaum New York Times
Regional Reporting Gayle Reaves, David Hanners, David McLemore Dallas Morning News
Local Reporting Heidi Evans New York Daily News
Environmental Reporting Adam Seessel Independent Weekly
Business Reporting Dianne Marder Philadelphia Inquirer
Special Publications Joseph M. Belth Insurance Forum
Special Award Globalvision for “South Africa Now,” defying censors to report on the country's turbulence and violence against its black majority.
Documentary Television Hedrick Smith, Martin Smith WGBH-TV (Boston) and Martin Smith Productions “Inside Gorbachev's U.S.S.R."
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, Robert Ourlian Detroit News
1989 Foreign Reporting Nicholas Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn New York Times
National Reporting Rick Atkinson Washington Post
Local Reporting Hartford Courant
Local Television Reporting WCSC-TV/Charleston, SC
TV Investigative Reporting Jonathan Kwitny WNYC-TV (New York)
Network TV Reporting CBS News
Radio Reporting Robert Knight WBAI (New York)
International Reporting Stephen Engelberg, Michael R. Gordon New York Times
Medical Reporting John Crewdson Chicago Tribune
Political Reporting Andrew Melnykovych Casper Star-Tribune
Regional Reporting Miranda Ewell, David Schrieberg San Jose Mercury News
Career Award Fred Hechinger New York Times
1988 Foreign Reporting John Kifner New York Times
National Reporting Keith Schneider New York Times
Local Reporting David Gomez, Patricia Guthrie Albuquerque Tribune
Financial Reporting National Thrift News
Environmental Reporting Mary Bishop Roanoke Times & World-News
Local Television Reporting KING-TV (Seattle)
Network Television Reporting Brian Ross, Ira Silverman NBC News
Economic Reporting Donald L. Barlette, James B. Steele Philadelphia Inquirer
Radio Reporting Patricia Neighmond National Public Radio
Cultural Reporting Lawrence Weschler Shapinsky’s Karma, Bogg’s Bills (North Point Press)
Photojournalism Mary Ellen Mark Streetwise
Career Award William Shawn The New Yorker
1987 Foreign Reporting Nora Boustany Washington Post
National Reporting Mike Masterson, Chuck Cook, Mark N. Trahant Arizona Republic
Local Reporting Ron Ridenhour New Orleans CityBusiness
Financial Reporting Daniel Hertzberg, James B. Stewart Wall Street Journal
Metropolitan Reporting Charlotte Observer
Local Television Reporting Margie Nichols WSMV-TV (Nashville)
Network Television Reporting CNN
Radio Reporting Larry Bensky Pacifica Radio
Sports Reporting Chris Mortensen Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Science Reporting Science News
Political Reporting Washington Bureau Knight Ridder
Foreign Television Reporting Gordon Manning NBC News
Magazine Reporting Roger Rosenblatt Time
Career Award Murray Kempton Newsday and New York Newsday
1986 Foreign Reporting Newsweek
National Reporting Andrew Wolfson, Daniel Rubin Louisville Courier-Journal
Local Reporting Sally Jacobs Raleigh News & Observer
Regional Reporting Alex Beasley, Rosemary Goudreau Orlando Sentinel
Financial Reporting Peter G. Gosselin Boston Globe
Science Reporting Science Times
Environmental Reporting High Country News
International TV Reporting David Fanning, Martin Smith PBS, Frontline
National Television Reporting Bill Moyers CBS News, CBS Reports
Local Television Reporting Lee Coppola WKBW-TV (Buffalo)
Book Richard Kluger Award for The Paper: The Life and Death of the New York Herald Tribune
Career Award James Reston New York Times
1985 Foreign Reporting Alan Cowell New York Times
International Reporting Pete Carey, Katherine Ellison, Lewis M. Simons San Jose Mercury News
National Reporting Diana Griego, Louis Kilzer Denver Post
Local Reporting Stan Jones Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Metropolitan Reporting Jimmy Breslin New York Daily News
Political Reporting Frank Greve Knight Ridder
Business Reporting Spotlight/Business Team Boston Globe
Medical Reporting Lawerence K. Altman New York Times
Criticism Arthur C. Danto The Nation
Radio Reporting Peter Laufer NBC Radio News
Network Television Reporting Ted Koppel, Richard N. Kaplan ABC News, Nightline
Local Television Reporting Vic Lee, Craig Franklin, Brian McTigue KRON-TV (San Francisco)
Career Award George Tames New York Times
1984 Foreign Reporting Mark Fineman Philadelphia Inquirer
National Reporting Robert Parry Associated Press
Local Reporting Ellen Whitford Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Virginia)
Medical Reporting William R. Ritz, John Aloysius Farrell Denver Post
Environmental Reporting Tom Harris, Jim Morris Sacramento Bee
Special Interest Reporting Lois R. Ember Chemical & Engineering News
Magazine Reporting John Vinocur New York Times Magazine
News Photography Ozier Muhammad Newsday
Special Award "Amnesty International Report" Amnesty International
Foreign Television Reporting Michael Buerk, Mohamed Amin BBC, Visnews, NBC News
National Television Reporting Alex Kotlowitz, Kwame Holman, Susan Ades PBS, MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
Local Television Reporting Rick Nelson, Joe Collum KPRC-TV (Houston)
Career Award Red Barber
1983 Foreign Reporting Joseph Lelyveld New York Times
National Reporting Robert M. Frump, Timothy Dwyer Philadelphia Inquirer
Regional Reporting Paul Lieberman, Celia Dugger Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Local Reporting Jim McGee Miami Herald
Foreign Affairs Reporting Philip Taubman New York Times
Economics Reporting Dennis Camire, Mark Rohner Gannett News Service
Consumer Reporting Marcia Stepanek, Stephen Franklin Detroit Free Press
Medical Reporting Benjamin Weiser Washington Post
Network Television Reporting Don McNeill CBS News
Local Television Reporting John Fosholt, Ward Lucas KBTV (Denver)
Documentary Television "Vietnam: A Television History" WGBH-TV (Boston), and aired on PBS
Special Interest Reporting The Amicus Journal Natural Resources Defense Council
Special Award Youssef M. Ibrahim Wall Street Journal
Career Award William Lawrence Shirer
1982 Foreign Reporting Thomas L. Friedman, David K. Shipler New York Times
National Reporting Richard Halloran New York Times
Regional Reporting Jim Henderson Dallas Times Herald
Metropolitan Reporting Doug Cumming Providence Journal-Bulletin
Local Reporting David Johnston, Joel Sappell Los Angeles Times
Magazine Reporting Roger Rosenblatt Time
Financial Reporting Phillip L. Zweig American Banker
Criticism Stanley Kauffmann New Republic
News Photography Robby Castro Associated Press
Network Television Reporting Martin Smith, Ed Rabel CBS News
Local Television Reporting Dick Gelfman, Theresa Crawford, John Sur WBAL-TV (Baltimore)
Documentary Television Andrew A. Stern PBS How Much Is Enough: Decision Making in the Nuclear Age
Special Award Rod Nordland Philadelphia Inquirer
1981 Foreign Reporting John Darnton New York Times
National Reporting Seymour M. Hersh, Jeff Gerth, Phillip Taubman New York Times
Regional Reporting Stephanie Saul, W. Stevens Ricks Jackson Clarion-Ledger "Mississippi Gulf Coast: Wide Open and Wicked"
Local Reporting "The Federal Impact" Orlando Sentinel-Star
Consumer Reporting Phil Norman Louisville Courier-Journal
Magazine Reporting William Greider The Atlantic
Book Edwin R. Bayley for Joe McCarthy and the Press University of Wisconsin Press
Science Reporting "News and Comments" Science
Television Documentary Pierre Salinger ABC News for "America Held Hostage: The Secret Negotiations."
Television Reporting Ted Koppel NBC News, Nightline
Radio Reporting John Merrow Institute for Educational Leadership and National Public Radio
Career Award George Seldes In Fact
1980 Foreign Reporting Shirley Christian Miami Herald
National Reporting Jonathan Neuman, Ted Gup Washington Post
Local Reporting Miami Herald
Regional Reporting Charlotte Observer
Editorials Editorial Board New York Times
Commentary Roger Angell New Yorker
News Photography Oscar Sabatta United Press International
Satiric Drawings Edward Sorel
Cultural Reporting ARTnews
National Radio Reporting National Public Radio
Local Radio Reporting Station KMOX (St. Louis)
Political Reporting Bill Moyers WNET (New York)
Local Television Reporting Stephen Talbot, Jonathan Dann KQED (San Francisco)
National Television Reporting Charles Kuralt CBS News
Special Award Leonard Karlin LIU alumnus/Polk Citation Writer
1979 Foreign Reporting John Kifner New York Times
National Reporting Brian Donovan, Bob Wyrick, Stuart Diamond Newsday
Regional Reporting Jim Adams, Jim Detjen Louisville Courier-Journal
Metropolitan Reporting Walt Bogdanich, Walter Johns Jr. Cleveland Press
Local Reporting Ed Petykiewicz Saginaw News
Documentary Jack Willis, Saul Landau New Time Films, Inc. Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang
National Television Reporting WRC-TV (Washington, D.C.)
Foreign Television Reporting Ed Bradley CBS News, 60 Minutes
Political Reporting Jack Newfield Village Voice
Commentary "Notes and Comments" Talk of the Town, New Yorker
Book William Shawcross for Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia Simon & Schuster
News Photography "Firing Squad" - Name Withheld United Press International
Special Interest Reporting Wilbert Rideau, Billy Sinclair The Angolite (Louisiana State Penitentiary)
Career Award Alden Whitman New York Times
1978 Foreign Reporting John F. Burns, John Darnton, Michael T. Kaufman New York Times
National Reporting Ronald Kessler Washington Post
Local Reporting Dallas Times Herald
Public Service Reporting Jane Shoemaker, Thomas Ferrick, Jr., William Ecenbarger Philadelphia Inquirer
Regional Reporting Southern Exposure
Educational Reporting Chronicle of Higher Education
Television Reporting Don Harris, Bob Brown NBC News
Film Documentary Scared Straight Golden West Television Productions
News Photography Eddie Adams Associated Press
Commentary Russell Baker New York Times
Career Award Richard S. Salant CBS News
1977 Foreign Reporting Robert C. Toth Los Angeles Times
National Reporting Walter Pincus Washington Post
Local Reporting Len Ackland Des Moines Register
Magazine Reporting Daniel Lang The New Yorker, Local Radio, Television
Radio, Television Reporting Barry Lando 60 Minutes
Local Radio, Television Reporting John Stossel WCBS-TV (New York)
Science Reporting New England Journal of Medicine
Criticism Peter S. Prescott Newsweek
Commentary Red Smith New York Times
Editorial Cartoons Jeff MacNelly Richmond News Leader
News Photography Eddie Adams Associated Press
Career Award Carey McWilliams The Nation
1975 No awards presented
1974 No awards presented
Foreign Reporting Donald Kirk Chicago Tribune
National Reporting Seymour M. Hersh New York Times
Metropolitan Reporting Richard Severo New York Times
Community Service William E. Anderson, Harley R. Bierce, Richard C. Cady Indianapolis Star
Magazine Reporting Edward M. Brecher, Robert H. Harris Consumer Reports
Television Documentary NBC News, NBC White Paper for examining global malnutrition in "And Who Shall Feed This World?"
News Photography Werner Baum Deutsche Presse-Agentur
Book Mary Adelaide Mendelson for Tender Loving Greed Vintage Books
Special Award Sydney H. Schanberg New York Times
1973 Foreign Reporting Henry S. Bradsher Washington Star-News
National Reporting Andrew H. Malcolm New York Times
Metropolitan Reporting James Savage, Mike Baxter Miami Herald
Local Reporting Carol Talley, Joan Hayde Daily Advance (Dover, New Jersey)
Community Service William Sherman New York Daily News
Investigative Reporting Seymour Hersh New York Times
Magazine Reporting John F. Osborne New Republic
Television Reporting Public Broadcasting Service, National Public Affairs Center for Television
Television Documentary Jeremy Isaacs for "The World at War" Thames Television (London)
News Photography George Brich Associated Press
Book David Wise for The Politics of Lying: Government Deception, Secrecy, and Power Random House
Special Award Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele Philadelphia Inquirer
1972 Foreign Reporting Jean Thoraval, Jean Leclerc du Sablon Agence France-Presse
National Reporting Carl Bernstein, Robert Woodward Washington Post
Metropolitan Reporting Joseph Martin, Martin McLaughlin, James Ryan New York Daily News
Local Reporting Doris Ellen Olsten Santa Maria Times (Santa Maria, California
Community Service Ronald Kessler Washington Post
Investigative Reporting Jean Heller Associated Press
Magazine Reporting Frances FitzGerald New Yorker
Television Reporting Jim McKay American Broadcasting Company
Television News-Documenta 60 Minutes, First Tuesday CBS News, NBC News
News Photography Huynh Cong Ut Associated Press
Book Sanford J. Ungar for The Papers & The Papers: An Account of the Legal and Political Battle Over the Pentagon Papers E.P. Dutton & Co.
Special Award Lesley Oelsner New York Times
1971 Foreign Reporting Sydney H. Schanberg New York Times
National Reporting New York Times
Metropolitan Reporting Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele Philadelphia Inquirer
Education Reporting Joseph Lelyveld New York Times
Public Service Frances Cerra Newsday
Magazine Reporting Ross Terrill The Atlantic Monthly
Television Documentary Peter Davis, Perry Wolff, Roger Mudd CBS News for “The Selling of the Pentagon,” which examined the U. S. military's public relations program.
Television Reporting Phil Brady NBC News
News Photography Horst Faas, Michel Laurent Associated Press
Criticism Richard Harwood Washington Post
Book Erik Barnouw for A Tower in Babel: A History of Broadcasting in the United States Oxford University Press
1970 Foreign Reporting Gloria Emerson New York Times
National Reporting Knight Newspapers
Metropolitan Reporting Richard Oliver New York Daily News
Community Service Karl Grossman Long Island Press
Editorials James E. Clayton Washington Post
Magazine Reporting Washington Monthly
Television Reporting Alan M. Levin National Educational Television "for a documentary on U.S. involvement in underdeveloped nations, Who Invited Us?"
Freedom of The Press Award Walter Cronkite CBS News, CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
News Photography John Darnell, John Foli, Howard Ruffner Life
Criticism Pauline Kael New Yorker
Book Otto Friedrich for Decline and Fall Harper & Row
Special Award I. F. Stone
1969 Foreign Reporting Henry Kamm New York Times
National Reporting Walter Rugaber New York Times
Metropolitan Reporting William Federici New York Daily News
National TV Reporting Tom Pettit National Broadcasting Company
Local TV Reporting Lee Hanna WCBS-TV (New York)
Magazine Reporting William Lambert Life
News Photography Stephen Dawson Starr Associated Press
Book Richard Ellmann for The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde University of Chicago Press
Special Award Wes Gallagher Associated Press
Special Award Seymour M. Hersh Dispatch News Service
1968 International Reporting David Kraslow and Stuart H. Loory Los Angeles Times
National Reporting Bernard D. Nossiter Washington Post
Regional Reporting James K. Batten, Dwayne Walls Charlotte Observer
Community Service David Burnam New York Times
Political Reporting Martin Arnold New York Times
Television Reporting NBC News, CBS News, ABC News
Magazine Reporting Norman Mailer Harper's Magazine
News Photography Edward T. Adams Associated Press
Criticism John Simon The New Leader
Book Charles Rembar for The End of Obscenity
1967 Foreign Reporting R. W. Apple, Jr. New York Times
National Reporting Clayton Fritchey Newsday Specials "for a syndicated Washington column"
Local Reporting J. Anthony Lukas New York Times
Community Service Newsday
Television Documentary ABC News for “Africa,” a four-hour overview of the continent
Magazine Reporting The Paris Review
News Photography Catherine Leroy
Criticism Saul Maloff Newsweek
Book Alan F. Westin for Privacy and Freedom Atheneum
1966 Foreign Reporting Harrison E. Salisbury New York Times
National Reporting Richard Harwood Washington Post
Local Reporting Cal Olston The Fargo Forum (North Dakota)
Interpretive Reporting Murray Kempton New York Post
Magazine Reporting Ramparts
Criticism Alfred Kazin
Book Wilson Follett Follett's Modern American Usage
News Photography Horst Faas Associated Press
Special Award Arnold Gingrich Esquire
Special Award Time Essay Time
1965 Foreign Reporting Dan Kurzman Washington Post
Editorial Comment John B. Oakes New York Times
Metropolitan Reporting Barry Gottehrer New York Herald Tribune
Interpretive Reporting Bernard B. Fall
Criticism Susan Sontag Partisan Review
Television Documentary Beryl Fox Canadian Broadcasting Corporation The Mills of the Gods: Viet Nam
News Photography James A. Bourdier Associated Press
Television News Morley Safer Columbia Broadcasting System
Caricature David Levine New York Review of Books
1964 Foreign Reporting Malcolm W. Browne Associated Press
National Reporting Paul Hope, John Barron Washington Star
Metropolitan Reporting A. M. Rosenthal New York Times
Community Service Samuel F. Marshall Cleveland Plain Dealer
Criticism Robert Brustein New Republic
Radio Reporting Edward P. Morgan American Broadcasting Company
Television Reporting Ted Yates National Broadcasting Company
Special Award Oron J. Hale
1963 Foreign Reporting David Halberstam New York Times
National Reporting American Broadcasting Company, Columbia Broadcasting System, National Broadcasting Company
Metropolitan Reporting Norman C. Miller Wall Street Journal
Magazine Reporting Gilbert A. Harrison New Republic
Criticism New York Review of Books
News Photography Roger Asnong Associated Press
Special Award A. H. Raskin New York Times
Special Award WNEW (radio)
Special Award Peter Lyon
1962 Foreign Reporting Dana Adams Schmidt New York Times
National Reporting Mary McGrory Washington Star
Local Reporting Kitty Hanson New York Daily News
Magazine Reporting James Baldwin New Yorker
Television Reporting WNDT (Newark)
News Photography Héctor Rondón Lovera La Republica (Caracas)
Special Award Michael Harrington The Other America
Special Award Morton Mintz Washington Post
Special Award Theodore E. Kruglak The Two Faces of TASS
1961 Foreign Reporting Morris H. Rubin The Progressive
National Reporting Gerard Piel Scientific American
Local Reporting Laurence Stern Washington Post
Radio & Television Reporting Robert Young, Charles Dorkins National Broadcasting Company
News Photography Anonymous Photographer Associated Press
Community Service Arnold Brophy, Joseph S. Gelmis Newsday
Special Award Jules Feiffer
1960 Foreign Reporting James Morris The Guardian (Manchester)
National Reporting John T. Cunniff Associated Press
Metropolitan Reporting William R. Clark, Alexander Milch Newark Evening News
Radio & Television Reporting Albert Wasserman, Robert Young National Broadcasting Company
News Photography Yasushi Nagao Mainichi Newspapers (Japan)
Community Service Village Voice
Special Award Douglass Carter Reporter
1959 Foreign reporting A. M. Rosenthal New York Times
National Reporting Nathaniel Gerstenzang New York Times
Metropolitan Reporting William Haddad, Joseph Kahn New York Post
Radio & Television Reporting Av Westin, Howard K. Smith Columbia Broadcasting System
Magazine Reporting The Times Literary Supplement (London)
News Photography Rangaswamy Satakopan Associated Press
Special Award Wilbur Schramm Institute for Communication Research, Stanford University
1958 Foreign Reporting Chet Huntley, Reuven Frank National Broadcasting Company
National Reporting Richard L. Strout Christian Science Monitor
Metropolitan Reporting William Haddad New York Post
Television Reporting Gabe Pressman WRCA-TV (New York)
Radio Reporting Jay McMullen Columbia Broadcasting System
Magazine Reporting Marya Mannes Reporter
News Photography Paul Schutzer Life
Community Service Brooklyn Heights Press
Special Award Justice William O. Douglas
Special Award Samuel Blackman Associated Press
Special Award Walter Sullivan New York Times
1957 Foreign Reporting Harrison E. Salisbury New York Times
National Reporting Relman Morin Associated Press
Metropolitan Reporting Mitchel Levitas New York Post
Radio & Television Reporting Columbia Broadcasting System
Magazine Reporting Edmund Stevens, Phillip Harrington Look
News Photography Jack Jenkins United Press Newspictures
Community Service Edward Wakin New York World-Telegram & Sun
Special Award Richard D. Heffner WRCA-TV (New York)
1956 Foreign Reporting Hal Lehrman
National Reporting Jack Lotto International News Service
Metropolitan Reporting Phil Santora New York Daily News
Suburban Reporting Mel Elfin Long Island Press
Radio & Television Reporting Columbia Broadcasting System
News Photography Jack Young United Press Newspictures
Special Award Emanuel R. Freedman New York Times
Special Award Endre Marton Associated Press
Special Award Ilona Nyilas United Press
1955 International Reporting Thomas J. Hamilton New York Times
Foreign Reporting Barrett McGurn New York Herald Tribune
National Reporting Milton Mayer The Reporter
Metropolitan Reporting Fern Marja, Peter J. McElroy, William Dufty New York Post
Suburban Reporting Bob Greene Newsday
Education Reporting Gertrude Samuels New York Times
Radio & Television Reporting National Broadcasting Company
Magazine Reporting William Attwood Look
News Photography William Sauro United Press Newspictures
Community Service Selwyn James and Robert Gorman Redbook
1954 International Reporting Thomas J. Hamilton New York Times
Foreign Reporting George Weller Chicago Daily News Syndicate
National Reporting Luther Huston New York Times
Metropolitan Reporting James McGlincy, Sydney Mirkin New York Daily News
Suburban Reporting Thomas Finnegan Long Island Star-Journal
Wire Service Reporting Alan J. Gould, Don Whitehead, Saul Pett, Ben Price, Relman Morir, Jack Bell Associated Press
Radio & Television Reporting Eric Sevareid Columbia Broadcasting System
Television Documentary Henry Salomon, Jr. National Broadcasting Company for “Three, Two, One, Zero,” a documentary on atomic power,
News Photography Maurice Johnson International News Photos
Special Page School Page New York World-Telegram & Sun
Community Service WNYC (New York)
Special Award Dan Parker New York Mirror
Special Award Leo Rosten Look
1953 Foreign Reporting Jim Lucas Scripps-Howard Newspapers
National Reporting James Reston New York Times
Metropolitan Reporting William Longgood New York World-Telegram & Sun
News Photography Peter Stackpole Life
Community Service Newsday
Special Award John Crosby New York Herald Tribune
Special Award Business Week
Special Award Leonard Engel freelance writer
1952 Foreign Reporting Marguerite Higgins New York Herald Tribune
National Reporting A. H. Raskin New York Times
Metropolitan Reporting Edward J. Mowery New York World-Telegram & Sun
News Photography Bob Wendlinger New York Mirror
Community Service Brooklyn Eagle
Special Award Jack Gould New York Times
Special Award The Reporter
Special Award Edward R. Murrow Columbia Broadcasting System
Special Award New York Daily News
1951 Foreign Reporting Milton Bracker, Virginia Lee Warren New York Times
National Reporting Jay Nelson Tuck New York Post
Metropolitan Reporting Richard Carter New York Compass
Suburban Reporting Yonkers Herald-Statesman
Education Reporting Kalman Siegel New York Times
Science Reporting Alton Blakeslee Associated Press
Religious Reporting Ann Elizabeth Price New York Herald Tribune
Sports Reporting Ben Gould Brooklyn Eagle
Community Service New York World-Telegram & Sun
Special Award Edward R. Murrow Columbia Broadcasting System
Special Award Sponsor
1950 Foreign Reporting Homer Bigart New York Herald Tribune
National Reporting Ira H. Freeman New York Times
Metropolitan Reporting Fern Marja New York Post
Suburban Reporting Long Island Daily Press
Wire Service Reporting Don Whitehead Associated Press
Education Reporting Fred Hechinger, Judith Crist New York Herald Tribune
Sports Reporting Red Smith New York Herald Tribune
Science Reporting George Keaney New York World-Telegram & Sun
Weekly Newspaper Reporting New Canaan Advertiser (New Canaan, Connecticut)
Community Service Newsday
Special Award Straw Poll New York Daily News
1949 Foreign Reporting Team of Six New York Herald Tribune
National Reporting Ted Poston New York Post
Suburban Reporting Fred Hechinger Bridgeport Herald (Bridgeport, Connecticut)
Wire Service Reporting Kingsbury Smith International News Service
Education Reporting Lester Grant New York Herald Tribune
Science Reporting William Laurence New York Times
Radio Reporting Don Hollenbeck Columbia Broadcasting System
Community Service Brooklyn Eagle
1948 Foreign Reporting Homer Bigart New York Herald Tribune
Metropolitan Reporting Malcolm Jonson New York Sun
Suburban Reporting Larry Andrews Nassau Review-Star
Education Reporting Benjamin Fine New York Times
Science Reporting Albert Deutsch PM Magazine
Community Service Brooklyn Eagle

References

  1. "Past George Polk Award Winners". Long Island University. Retrieved February 22, 2022.
  2. "Long Island University announces 2023 George Polk Awards in Journalism," press release from Long Island University via PR Newswire, 2/19/2024
  3. "Long Island University announces 2022 George Polk Awards in Journalism," press release from Long Island University via Editor & Publisher, 2/21/2023
  4. "Long Island University announces winners of 2021 George Polk Awards in Journalism," press release from Long Island University via Editor & Publisher, 2/21/2022
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