The George Polk Awards were announced Monday. The Polk Award is one of the highest accolades in journalism. They are named for Polk, who was a CBS correspondent killed in Greece during the 1948 civil war there.
For those of you who are serious about journalism, you will look up the original stories by writers such as Barry Bearak & Celia W. Dugger--of the NYT. Bearak is one of my favorites. He worked at the LAT when I was there and was amazing and is amazing as a reporter and writer. Gay Talese won a lifetime achievement award
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/17/nyregion/17polk.html?scp=1&sq=Polk%20Awards&st=cse
I read this article in the hard copy of the NYT today. When I went to the website to try to find it, by just looking for the words Polk Awards, it could not. So I put Polk Awards in the search box. Actual newspapers have a virtue in that you can scan quickly through sections. Scanning on a webpage is a different experience: sometimes better. Sometimes worse.
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