Nonprofit Center Wins George Polk Journalism Award
Tim Porter at First Draft points us to The Center for Public Integrity’s , story Windfalls of War. which was named best in Internet reporting in the prestigious George Polk Awards for 2003.
This from a Polk Award Press Release:
The Center for Public Integrity will receive the George Polk Award for Internet Reporting, the first award of its kind, for “Windfalls of War: U.S. Contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan.” His online reports led to print and broadcast coverage here and abroad that put the Pentagon on the defensive and spurred new Congressional oversight of military spending.
The Center says of itself:
The quality of the Center’s work, in just over a decade, has firmly established the organization as an institutional presence in Washington, D.C. With our hard-earned reputation for “public service journalism,” the Center is distinct from most other non-governmental organizations, because of our high-quality, well-documented, investigative research.
