George Polk School
of Communications
of Communications
Journalism department takes full advantage of being just outside the media capital of the world, New York City. Students visit Entertainment Tonight's host Nancy O'Dell on set.
The George Polk Awards recognize sacrifice, virtue and truth. This year, we honor journalists in 15 categories for their reporting in 2021.
Specialize in digital audio, computer graphics, film, television & video production, media studies, media management, screenwriting, video journalism, or photography.
Distinguishing Features
Polk Scholars Program
High-achieving students committed to excellence in the field of communication, media, and journalism.
Advisory Committee
Communication professionals, and Polk Award winners advise on strategic goals and connections to industry.
George Polk Awards
In 1949, LIU established a new journalism prize to memorialize George Polk, a CBS correspondent who was killed while covering the Greek Civil War. The mission, as distinguished from other journalism honors, focused on recognizing not the news organizations or publishers, but investigative reporters themselves.
Carl Bernstein and Robert WoodwardAward Category Award Year Washington Post, "for bringing to public attention the Watergate bugging story." |
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Norman MailerAward Category Award Year Harper's magazine |
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Christiane Amanpour and Anita PratapAward Category Award Year CNN, for a revelatory report, "Battle for Afghanistan." |
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Diane Sawyer and Robbie GordonAward Category Award Year ABC News PrimeTime Live, for "Fighting for Care," which documented patient abuse and deplorable conditions in VA hospitals. |
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Ed BradleyAward Category Award Year CBS News, for stories in the plight of Cambodian refugees. |
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Seymour M. HershAward Category Award Year New Yorker magazine, for accounts of the torture of Iraqis by Americans at Abu Ghraib Prison. |
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Peter Jennings, Leslie Cockburn, and Tom YellinAward Category Award Year ABC News, for exposing the U. S. role in the resurgence of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. |
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Jane FergusonAward Category Award Year PBS NewsHour for her graphic portrayal of a humanitarian disaster resulting from the proxy war between forces allied with Saudi Arabia and Iran in northern Yemen. |
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Jimmy BreslinAward Category Award Year New York Daily News, for columns on alleged police torture with battery-operated shock devices. |
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Julie K. BrownAward Category Award Year Miami Herald for "Perversion of Justice," exposing how a federal prosecutor helped a hedge-fund billionaire evade punishment for sexually abusing dozens of under-age girls. |
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Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, and Laura PoitrasAward Category Award Year The Guardian and Barton Gellman, Washington Post, for investigative stories on massive NSA surveillance based on top-secret documents disclosed by former intelligence analyst Edward Snowden. |
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Award Category Award Year For "Black Demagogues and Pseudo-Scholars," a New York Times op-ed essay. |
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Walter CronkiteAward Category Award Year CBS, for resisting White House efforts to discredit accounts of an atrocity in Vietnam and disclosing them. |
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Edward R. MurrowAward Category Award Year CBS, for a Christmas program from Korea and other "See It Now" telecasts. |
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Spike Lee and Sam PollardAward Category Award Year For "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts" on HBO on the human misery and paltry government response in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina |
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