CONGRATS TO DAVID EVANS FOR WINNING YET ANOTHER INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM AWARD.
New York Times, Washington Post Lead in Polk Journalism Awards
Feb. 21 (Bloomberg) -- The New York Times and Washington Post took the most prizes in the George Polk Awards in Journalism, winning two awards each.
The Times was cited for excellence in commentary and business reporting, according to a statement issued by Long Island University, which administers the awards. The Washington Post won awards for national and foreign reporting.
The 14 awards were given for coverage of issues including the Central Intelligence Agency's interrogation techniques and the 1964 murders of three civil rights activists in Mississippi. The prizes, created in 1949, honor the CBS correspondent who was murdered while covering the civil war in Greece in 1948.
``The caliber of work produced by this year's Polk Award winners reminds us that investigative journalism is vital to our democracy and society,'' Long Island University President David Steinberg said in the statement.
Bloomberg News won the health reporting prize for its coverage of the U.S. clinical trial system that exploited poor, mostly minority citizens, the statement said. The stories led to a federal review of human testing and to the resignation of top executives at a private testing center.
The Jackson, Mississippi-based Clarion-Ledger won the justice reporting award for investigating the 1964 murders of the civil rights activists.
The international reporting honor was given to the Chicago Tribune for an investigation of a massacre of 12 Nepalese men in Iraq. ABC News won the television reporting award for uncovering CIA interrogation techniques used in secret detention facilities which many experts consider to be torture, the statement said.
Career Award
Other winners include the San Diego Union-Tribune for political reporting, the New Orleans Times-Picayune for metropolitan reporting and the San Francisco Bay Guardian for local reporting. Independent radio producer JoAnn Mar won for radio reporting based on her one-hour documentary about the privatization of the prison system.
The George Polk Career Award was given to documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman, whose works include ``High School'' and ``Titicut Follies.'' The Nation magazine publisher emeritus Victor Navasky won the book award for his memoir, ``A Matter of Opinion.''
Dana Priest of the Washington Post won the national reporting award for a series of 10 articles uncovering the existence of secret CIA-run prisons. Joe Stephens and David Ottaway, also at the Washington Post, won foreign reporting honors for documenting claims that the U.S. reconstruction process in Afghanistan was a sham.
The following is a list of Polk Award recipients:
Career Award
Frederick Wiseman
Documentary filmmaker
International Reporting
Cam Simpson, Jose More
Chicago Tribune
Television Reporting
Brian Ross and Richard Esposito
ABC News
National Reporting
Dana Priest
The Washington Post
Foreign Reporting
Joe Stephens, David Ottaway
The Washington Post
Business Reporting
Barry Meier
New York Times
Commentary
Frank Rich
New York Times
Metropolitan Reporting
The Times-Picayune
Justice Reporting
Jerry Mitchell
The Clarion-Ledger
Health Reporting
David Evans, Michael Smith, Liz Willen
Bloomberg News
Political Reporting
Marcus Stern, Jerry Kammer
Copley News Service
Dean Calbreath
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Local Reporting
Adam Clay Thompson
The San Francisco Bay Guardian
Book Award
Victor S. Navasky
``A Matter of Opinion''
Radio Reporting
JoAnn Mar
Independent producer
To contact the reporter on this story:
Aimee Picchi in New York at apicchi@bloomberg.net.
Last Updated: February 21, 2006 14:39 EST
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