Check out the winners of the 2006 George Polk Awards

George Polk Awards | Editor & Publisher | winning newspapers
* Foreign reporting: Lydia Polgreen of the New York Times. (Read the paper’s story on the award.)
* Network television reporting: NBC News.
* Military reporting: Lisa Chedekel and Matthew Kauffman of the Hartford Courant (story).
* Medical reporting: Robert Little of the Baltimore Sun (story).
* Environmental reporting: Kenneth R. Weiss and Usha Lee McFarling of the Los Angeles Times (story).
* Business reporting: Charles Forelle, James Bandler and Mark Maremont of the Wall Street Journal (story).

* National reporting: Jeff Kosseff, Bryan Denson and Les Zaitz of the Oregonian.
* Metropolitan reporting: Debbie Cenziper of the Miami Herald (story).
* Local reporting: Lakefront Outlook (story).
* Political reporting: Ray Ring of High Country News.

* Radio reporting: Producers of “Early Signs: Reports from a Warming Planet.” (Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California-Berkeley, American Public Media and Living on Earth.)
> Frank: No journalism award should bear the name of George Polk (WS)