New York Times journalists, The New Yorker and Propublica were among the winners of the George Polk Awards, which were announced on Monday.
Long Island University, The Home of the Awards, selected the winners from 493 submissions of work published in 2024, many of which focused on reports of wars and conflict zones and health and medical examinations. The New York Times won three Polk Awards, most publication.
“Given the reach and depth of exceptional and occasional remarkable reporting for us, the wunnowing of the list to these 15 meant a number of very hard phone calls,” said John Darnton, the curator of the prizes. “These winners represent the best of the best.”
Ronen Bergman and Mark Mazzetti of the New York Times Magazine won the Foreign Reporting Award for 'The Unpasticished: How Extremists who took over Israel', an investigation of nearly 14,000 words to half a century of the Israeli authorities who derive violence by ultranationalists against Palestinians or approve.
Declan Walsh and the New York Times staff received the prize for war report for their continuous coverage of destruction and destruction of the civil war in Sudan, including revealing that the United Arab Emirates used humanitarian effort in the country as coverage was secretly weapons On the side it supported.
The National Reporting Prize went to Katherine Eban, a special correspondent for Vanity Fair, for “Inside the Bunged Bird Flu Response, where the profit clashed with public health”, in which it was investigated why an important government agency was slowly reacting to the outbreak of bird flu .
The Baltimore Banner's Alissa Zhu, Nick Thieme and Jessica Gallagher won the local reporting price for a study that has collected data to show that Baltimore had become the overdose capital of the United States, with a death rate from 2018 to 2022 almost double that of All other big city. Their work was a collaboration with the Local Investigation Fellowship of the New York Times, a one-year Fellowship program for young journalists from local newsrooms. It was also published in the Times.
Sara Dinatale of the San Antonio Express-News received the State Reporting Prize for a four-part series that exposed how some door-to-door sellers of solar energy had scammed homeowners, causing them to be damaged roofs, expensive loans and false promises of discounts .
The Health Care Reporting Award went to Bob Herman, Tara Bannow, Casey Ross and Lizzy Lawrence from Stat for the research series 'Health Care's Colossus', which investigated how UnitedHealth Group used his dominance to increase its profit and the conflicts of the reach of to expose its reach within each aspect of the health care system.
Kavitha Surana, Lizzie Presser, Cassandra Jaramillo and Stacy Kranitz of Propublica won the Medical Reporting Award for their research that used hospital files and death certificates in Texas and Georgia to discover the deaths of at least five women who have refused care provision of care .
Jane Mayer of the New Yorker won the political reporting price for 'Pete Hegseeth's Secret History', her research into Mr. Hegseeth, who is now the American defense minister. Her report revealed that he had previously been forced from leading positions in interest groups for accusations of financial mismanagement, sexist behavior and intoxication.
Two alumnae of the research program for research at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, Katey Rusch and Casey Smith, received the Justice Reporting Prize for the two -part series “Right to Remain Secret”, published by the San Francisco Chronicle. Their investigation revealed a secret system of legal settlements with which Californian police officers could obscure misconduct about their data and find new jobs in law enforcement.
The Technology Reporting Award went to Olivia Carville and Cecilia d'Aastasio from Bloomberg Businessweek for exposing how predators provided children on the Roblox gaming platform. After their report, Roblox announced that parents would require parents to follow the online activity of Pretens.
Rachel Aviv of the New Yorker won the magazine Reporting Award for 'Alice Munro's Passive Voice', her article of 20,000 words, in which it was investigated why the celebrated author was silent when he was confronted with the sexual abuse of her partner's partner, but used The abuse to transform her fiction to transform her fiction to transform her fiction to transform her fiction.
The National Television Reporting Award went to Mike Hixenbaugh, Jon Schuppe, Liz Kreutz and the late Susan Carroll from NBC News and Noticias Telemundo for 'De Dead Dead', who discovered how a Texas Medical School sold the body parts of Lorjes for research and education Little trouble finding the individual's family to get permission.
Marcia Biggs, Eric O'Connor and André Paulre of the PBS Newshoured won the Foreign Television Reporting Award for “Haiti in Crisis”. The journalists traveled to Haiti to show the grim size of the destruction and barbarism caused by the gang warfare that chaos sowed in the capital of the country, Port-au-Prince.
The podcast prize was awarded to Ben Austen and Bill Healy from Audible for 'The Parole Room', who went behind the scenes of the 20th conditional hearing for Johnnie Veal, a prisoner who was convicted of killing two police officers in 1970 innocence.
The Sydney Schanberg Prize, who honors a long-shape investigation journalism, was awarded to Sarah A. Topol of the New York Times Magazine for 'The Deserter', a five-part epic after a Russian soldier who fled against Ukraine during the war and Russia fled before His life and his love.
