New York Times, New Yorker and Propublica Journalists were among the winners of the George Polk Awards, which were announced on Monday.
Long Island University, the Home of the Awards, selected the winner of 493 work published in 2024, many of which focused on reports from wars and conflict zones and medical and medical investigations. The New York Times won three Polk awards, most of the publication.
“Given the extent and depth of exceptional and occasional reports before us, it meant that the list of these 15 meant a few very hard calls,” said John Darnton, curator of prices. “These winners are the best of the best.”
Ronen Bergman and Mark Mazzsetti from New York Times magazine won the Foreign Reports for “Non -punishment: As extremists took over Israel“Almost 14,000 vocabulary investigations of half a century of Israeli offices ignoring or convicting the violence of ultra -nationalists against the Palestinians.
Declan Walsh and New York Times employees received a price for war reports for their continuing coverage devastation and destruction from the civil war in Sudan, including revealing that United Arab Emirates He used humanitarian efforts in the country as coverage, while secretly enforced weapons to the side he supported.
The National Reporting Award was won by Katherine Eban, a special correspondent at Vanity Fair, for “Inside response to bird flu where profits are collided with public health“Which examined why the key government agency was slowly responding to the outbreak of bird flu.
Alissa Zhu, Nick Thieme and Jessica Gallagher of Baltimore Banner’s Alissa Zhu won the Local Report Award Award for Investigations that compiled data to show Baltimore A capital of drug overdose From the United States, with mortality from 2018 to 2022, almost double the degree of any other large city. Their work was working with a local investigation scholarship in the New York Times, a one -year social program for young journalists from local editors. He was also published in The Times.
Sara Dinatale of San Antonio Express-Nes has won the State Report Prize Four -part series This revealed how some roof energy retailers in Texas cheated on homeowners and left them with damaged roofs, expensive loans and fake promises of discounts.
Bob Herman, Tara Bannow, Casey Ross and Lizzy Lawrence from Stat for Investigation Series won the health care price.Colossus Health Care“He explored how the UnitedHealth group controlled their dominance to increase their profits and revealed conflicts of their reach within all aspects of the health care system.
Kavith Surana, Lizzie Presser, Cassandra Jaramillo and Stacy Kranitz of Domotblica won the Medical Reporting Award for their investigation This used hospitals and death certificates in Texas and Georgia to uncover the death of at least five women who were prevented from care for abortion.
Jane Mayer from New York won the Political Intelligence Award for “Secret History Pete HegSeth“Her investigation by Mr. Hegset, who is now an American secretary of defense. Her reports revealed that he was previously pushed out of leading positions in groups of advocacy regarding accusations of financial poor management, sexist behavior and intoxication.
Two graduation programs for Investigation Intelligence in California University of California, Katey Rusch and Casey Smith, received the award for reporting justice for the two -part series “”Right“He released San Francisco Chronicle. Their investigation revealed the secret system of legal settlement, which allowed police officers in California to cover incorrect behavior on their records and find new jobs in the area of enforcement.
The Technology Reporting Award Award won Olivia Carville and Cecilia d’Anastasio from Bloomberg Businessweek Pro exposure As predators modified children on the Roblox gaming platform. After reporting them, Roblox announced that it would require parents to watch online activity.
Rachel Aviv from New Yorker won the Report Award Award for “Passive voice Alice Munro“Her 20,000 words that examines why the famous author was silent when he was confronted with her daughter’s sexual abuse, but used abuse to transform her fiction.
Mike Hixenbaugh, Jon Schuppe, Liz Kreutz and Late Susan Carroll from NBC News and Noticias Telemundo won the National Television Reporting AwardThe actions of the dead“It revealed how the Texas Medical School sold the body of the body part of the corpses for research and education, and at the same time made little effort to find the individual’s family to gain consent.
Marcia Biggs, Eric O’Connor and André Paultre from PBS News Hour won award for foreign television for “Haiti in crisis“Journalists traveled to Haiti to show the grim extent of devastation and barbarism caused by the gang war, which was reached by chaos in the capital of Port-Au-Prince.
Podcast Prize was awarded to Ben Austen and Bill Healy from Audible for “Maid“He went behind the scenes of the 20. Parole hearing for Johnnie Veal, a prisoner who was convicted of the murder of two police officers in 1970, but maintained his innocence.
Sydney Schanberg Award, which honors long -term investigative journalism, was awarded Sarah A. Topol from New York Times magazine for “Dessert“The five -part epic followed by a Russian soldier who was awarded and fled from Russia during his life and his love during the war.
