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Five recipients of the 2023 George Polk Awards, announced today by Long Island University, were for coverage of the Israel/Gaza and Russia/Ukraine wars in a year when the university is marking the 75th anniversary of one of American journalism's prized honors.

He inspired journalists with his willingness to critique the damaging effects on ordinary people’s lives of capitalism and Western countries.

The death of Australian journalist John Pilger means the world has lost another resolutely dissenting voice in the media, writes Matthew Ricketson.

Pilger inspired many with his willingness to critique the damaging effects on ordinary people’s lives of capitalism and Western countries’ foreign policies. But he also provoked global controversy.

NEW YORK (Feb. 24, 2021) – Long Island University (LIU) has announced the winners of the 73rd annual George Polk Awards in Journalism, honoring journalists in 18 categories for their reporting in 2020. Almost half of the awardees won for reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic, which dominated the judging process, accounting for one quarter of all submissions. This year saw a record total of 592 entries, work that appeared in print, online or on television or radio and was nominated by news organi...

Arrest just the workers, not the employers. local reporters in mississippi did the work of covering the real news that donald trump created yesterday with those arrests. the jackson free press in mississippi said children finished their first day of school with no parents to go home to tonight, babies and toddlers remain at daycare with no guardian to pick them up. a child vainly searched a workplace parking lot for missing parents. alex love of wjtv in mississippi delivered the most important t...

Arrest just the workers, not the employers. local reporters in mississippi did the work of covering the real news that donald trump created yesterday with those arrests. the jackson free press in mississippi said children finished their first day of school with no parents to go home to tonight, babies and toddlers remain at daycare with no guardian to pick them up. a child vainly searched a workplace parking lot for missing parents. alex love of wjtv in mississippi delivered the most important t...

Arent right, although ben smith would say thats not the case. but what it isnt is trying to falsify something. i do not feel confident of that. >> what you and i call the secondary press which is all the second websites that respond to the article and all the television reporting that responds, did we overdo it in response? >> yeah, i think so. you know, everybody said if true, if true. but nevertheless, it dominated, it dominated the news all day. and thats, you know, it was too much. but, you ...

Epic documentary show of unflinching witness to the holocaust it contains no archival footage no musical school just the landscape trains and recounted memories for the twelve year long labor of love took a heavy toll on last mans life but he never lost sight of his goal of finishing the film. did he see how. its different. to be able to work for twelve years on a film. you have to find a way to make time stand still for you. it stood still for me. even though in reality it kept on going. in one...

Away, and he kept talking to them. tonight i went back to place, everybody came up and said im so sorry for your loss. and every single person in that restaurant had a story as if they knew him personally. that doesnt surprise you, does it. >> it was his great gift as person but as a writer and an emissary of television and television reporting, he gave you himself. he was straight, it was funny, it was rude, it was filthy, it was poetic. it was him. i think everybody feels the person they see o...