Hersh, AP Among 2004 Polk Award Winners

[Rose Siding]

NEW YORK -- Seymour Hersh of The New Yorker won his fifth George Polk Award for his accounts of prisoner abuse in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, making him the most-honored individual in the history of the awards. Reporters from The New York Times took three of the 2004 awards, and The Associated Press was a double winner.

Hersh won the magazine reporting prize for his Abu Ghraib stories 35 years after winning the Polk award for coverage of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.

The Career Award went to Bill Moyers, who retired last year after more than three decades in public television. He won a Polk Award in 1980 for political reporting.
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Dexter Filkins of The New York Times won in the war reporting category for his firsthand accounts of attacks against Iraqi insurgents in Fallujah. Walt Bogdanich of the Times won the national reporting category, his fourth Polk award, for his series on how railroad companies were able to sidestep regulations. Diana Henriques won the paper's third award for 2004 for military reporting. Her work looked at how insurance and investment firms with ties to military commanders took advantage of young soldiers.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-polk-awards,0,6650692.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines

[still_one]

1. isn't that the award that o'reilly won? lol

[Rose Siding]

2. A program he once worked on won it

He didn't win a thing personally.

[Robbien]

3. It is sad that only the Hersh story got any real play in corporate media

The stories which got the other polk awards were stories which only really got coverage in alternative media. The AP stories for instance:

The Associated Press' Paisley Dodds won the award for foreign reporting. She was cited for her work in Haiti, covering the ouster of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and then the aftermath of floods that devastated the country. She is now the news organization's chief of bureau in London. Justin Pritchard, the AP's news editor for Southern California, won the labor reporting prize for his investigation into the high rate of work-related deaths among Mexican workers in America. Pritchard's report, documented with federal data and survivor interviews, drew responses from the Mexican and U.S. governments, including the first Hispanic Safety and Health Summit held by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

I was only aware of these stories through DU and other online sites. They sure weren't in the Six O'Clock news.

[car54whereareyou]

4. Hersh deserves all the best

however, I agree that unfortunately, many of the others honored are not well known. They are all in the best of company.

[Spazito]

5. It is good to see a award that is given for real, hard-hitting...

journalism. Hersh deserves it and more, imo as does Bill Moyers. I am sure the others are well deserved as well.

[applegrove]

6. The Freepers will start their own Awards. They have their own History - so

why not!!

[SoCalDem]

7. There he goes again.. Makin' Shrill O'Reilly jealous

poor baby:P

[DeepModem Mom]

8. kick

[mandyky]

9. Congratulations, Sy!

Ya done good!