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Seymour Hersh wins the 2004 George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting for his New Yorker accounts of torture at Abu Ghraib. With five awards, he’s now the most honored individual laureate in the history of the Polk awards. His prize is among 13 awards for extraordinary journalism, ranging from courageous reporting in war zones (Dexter Filkins of the New York Times) to news-breaking investigations in baseball (Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams of the San Francisco Chronicle).
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