Long Island University will present the 67th annual George Polk Awards in Journalism, honoring reporters who advanced vital national conversations on race and gender relations with their masterful investigative reporting during 2015.
Awards will be presented to reporters from The Associated Press, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, and Slate Magazine, among others. Simeon Booker, who reported on the U. S. Civil Rights movement for more than half a century for Jet Magazine, will be the 34th recipient of the George Polk Career Award.
The George Polk Awards, which are conferred annually to honor special achievement in journalism, place a premium on investigative and enterprising reporting that gains attention and achieves results. They were established in 1949 by Long Island University to commemorate George Polk, a CBS correspondent murdered in 1948 while covering the Greek civil war.
Winners of this year’s awards will be honored at a luncheon ceremony at The Grand Hyatt Hotel in Manhattan on Friday, April 8 from 11 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The journalist and author Charlayne Hunter-Gault will read the award citations.
Ms. Hunter-Gault will also moderate this year’s David J. Steinberg Seminar of the George Polk Awards, “Reporting on Race in America,” Thursday, April 7 at LIU Brooklyn’s Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts. She will be joined by three 2015 George Polk laureates: Wesley Lowery, national reporter for The Washington Post covering law enforcement, justice, race and politics; Nikole Hannah-Jones, a reporter specializing in education who won the award for a report on “This American Life” and is now on the staff of The New York Times magazine; and Jamie Kalven, writer and human rights activist. The seminar, which starts at 5:30 p.m., is free and open to the public.
For information, visit community.liu.edu/George_Polk_Awards.
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