TheGeorge Polk Awards in Journalism are a series of American journalism awards presented annually byLong Island University in New York in the United States. A writer for Idea Lab, a group blog hosted on the website ofPBS, described the award as "one of only a couple of journalism prizes that means anything".[1][2][3][4] The award is described as follows:
For 75 years, LIU has been the proud home of the George Polk Awards in Journalism, the first major award of its kind to recognize reporting across all media. This prestigious honor focuses on the intrepid, bold, and influential work of the reporters themselves, placing a premium on investigative work that is original, resourceful, and thought-provoking.[5]
The awards were established in 1949, in memory ofGeorge Polk, aCBS News correspondent who was murdered in March 1948 while covering theGreek Civil War.
In 2024,The New York Times was awarded three Polk Awards for the newspaper's "unsurpassed coverage of the war betweenIsrael andHamas".[9][10]Steven Thrasher criticized the issuance of the awards to theNew York Times, saying that the newspaper's article, "Screams Without Words", had been discredited.[11]
