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February 21, 2012

2011 Polk Awards Given to Shadid, Mayer, AP, Al Jazeera 
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In journalism news, the winners of the 2011 George Polk Awards have been
announced. The winners included a team of reporters at the Associated
Press who exposed how the New York City Police Department built one of
the largest domestic intelligence agencies in the country with help from
the CIA. May Ying Welsh of Al Jazeera English won an award for her
documentary on Bahrain's crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. And The
New Yorker's Jane Mayer won for her profile of National Security Agency
whistleblower Thomas Drake. New York Times reporter Anthony Shadid will
be awarded posthumously for extraordinary valor for his work in the
Middle East. He died last week in Syria.



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