'In The Dark' Podcast Honored With LIU's George Polk Award

Podcast Winner

LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY has announced the winners of the 70th annual GEORGE POLK Awards in Journalism, and for the first time, a podcast was one of the winners, with the second season of AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA/APM REPORTS' "IN THE DARK," an examination of a case in which one African-American man was tried six times for the same crime and ended up on death row, honored

"The POLK Awards recognize the changing landscape of news," said Awards Curator JOHN DANTON. "The story of a person who in all likelihood is wrongly convicted is tried and true. But the podcast, as a delivery vehicle spread over multiple episodes that makes listeners feel it is unfolding in real time right before their ears, is a new and exciting reincarnation."

Noting that the awards drew a record 554 submissions, DANTON added, "Few years have been as fruitful as this one. These winners tell us that the best of our journalists remain resilient, courageous, dedicated and undeterred by attacks on their ability and integrity."

The winners include:

• Foreign Reporting: REUTERS, WA LONE and KYAW SOE OO, "Massacre in MYANMAR"
• National Reporting: NEW YORK TIMES, Staff, series on FACEBOOK's failure to monitor misuse
• State Reporting: THE NEW ORLEANS ADVOCATE, JEFF ADELSON, GORDON RUSSELL, JOHN SIMERMAN and Staff, investigation of LOUISIANA's 10-2 jury verdict law
• Local Reporting: TAMPA BAY TIMES, KATHLEEN MCGRORY and NEIL BEDI, "Heartbroken"
• Political Reporting: THE NEW YORK TIMES, DAVID BARSTOW, SUSANNE CRAIG and RUSS BUETTNER, probe of President TRUMP's finances
• Medical Reporting: NETFLIX, KIRBY DICK, AMY ZIERING. and AMY HERDY, "The Bleeding Edge"
• Justice Reporting: MIAMI HERALD, JULIE K. BROWN, "Perversion of Justice"
• Immigration Reporting: PROPUBLICA, Staff, "Zero Tolerance"
• Education Reporting: ARIZONA REPUBLIC, CRAIG HARRIS, ANNE RYMAN, ALDEN WOODS and JUSTIN PRICE, probe of charter school scandal
• Environmental Reporting: UNDARK MAGAZINE, LARRY C. PRICE, "Breathtaking"
• Magazine Reporting: THE NEW YORKER, BEN TAUB, "IRAQ's Post-ISIS Campaign of Revenge"
• Foreign Television Reporting: PBS, PBS NEWS HOUR, JANE FERGUSON, YEMEN coverage
• Local Television Reporting: COX MEDIA GROUP ABC affiliate WSOC-TV/CHARLOTTE, JOE BRUNO, coverage of voting scandal in Congressional race
• Special Award: AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA, APM REPORTS, MADELEINE BARAN and SAMARA FREEMARK, "IN THE DARK: Season Two"
• Special Award: THE WASHINGTON POST, DAVID IGNATIUS and KAREN ATTIAH, campaign for accountability from SAUDI government and candor from TRUMP Administration for the murder of JAMAL KHASHOGGI
• Career Award: NPR founding Diretor of Programming BILL SIEMERING

Winners of the 2018 awards will be honored at a luncheon ceremony in NEW YORK on APRIL 5th, hosted by CHARLAYNE HUNTER-GAULT, who will also moderate the previous evening's DAVID J, STEINBERG Seminar, "After 70 Years, Still Honoring Reporters Who Seek to Right Wrongs," in BROOKLYN.

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