California
Times receives George Polk Award for coverage of Bell scandal
Feb. 22, 2011
Politics
Times’ Paul Pringle wins George Polk Award for SEIU stories
Feb. 17, 2009
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Feb. 19, 2008
His reporting prompted the firing of the union local’s president and sparked FBI and congressional inquiries.
Music
Times staff writer Chuck Philips has won a George Polk journalism award for his detailed accounts of the inner workings of the music industry, and a team of Times reporters has won a Polk award for tracing funding from Asian sources to the coffers of the Democratic National Committee, some of which was in violation of federal law.
March 7, 1997
World & Nation
Two Times journalists have received a George Polk Award for chronicling a Honduran boy’s dangerous journey to the United States in search of his mother.
Feb. 24, 2003
Los Angeles Times coverage of last year’s riots and a series on the Soviet nuclear legacy have won George Polk awards for excellence in journalism.
March 2, 1993
Photographer’s work in Iraq and Liberia, and a report on Wal-Mart are cited. The New York Times also wins two.
Feb. 17, 2004
Times staff writer Virginia Ellis has won the 2000 George Polk Award for political reporting, in recognition of her stories exposing misconduct by former California Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush.
March 16, 2001
Los Angeles Times staff writer Kenneth R.
Feb. 20, 2007