CNN’s chief foreign correspondent, Clarissa Ward, and her crew won the foreign television reporting prize for their coverage of the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan and the rapid Taliban takeover. Ms. Ward’s dispatches showed Taliban revelers in the chaotic streets of Kabul while some women were too afraid to leave their houses and many were desperately trying to find a way out of the country.
The winners of the Polk Awards, named after George Polk, a CBS News correspondent who was murdered in 1948 while covering the Greek civil war, will be honored at a lunch in April.
Long Island University also announced a new award this year: the Sydney H. Schanberg Prize. Named for a longtime journalist at The New York Times, the prize honors long-form investigative or enterprise journalism that deals with conflicts, corruption, military injustice, war crimes or authoritarian government abuses. The award, funded by Mr. Schanberg’s widow, the journalist Jane Freiman Schanberg, comes with a $25,000 gift.
Mr. Schanberg, who died in 2016, won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of Cambodia’s fall to the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s. His account of the life of his colleague, Dith Pran, inspired the 1984 film “The Killing Fields.”
The inaugural winner of the new award, announced this month, is Luke Mogelson, a contributing writer for The New Yorker, for “Among the Insurrectionists,” his 12,000-word account of the unfolding of the Jan. 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol, along with videos he filmed while inside the Capitol with the rioters.
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/21/business/media/polk-awards-2021.html
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