The New York Times Wins 3 Polk Awards

Journalists from The New York Times, The New Yorker and ProPublica were among the winners of the George Polk Awards, which were announced on Monday.

Long Island University, the home of the awards, selected the winners from 493 submissions of work published in 2024, many of which focused on reports from wars and conflict zones and health and medical investigations. The New York Times won three Polk Awards, the most of any publication.

“Given the range and depth of exceptional and occasionally remarkable reporting before us, winnowing the list to these 15 meant making some very hard calls,” said John Darnton, the curator of the awards. “These winners represent the best of the best.”

Ronen Bergman and Mark Mazzetti of The New York Times Magazine won the foreign reporting award for “The Unpunished: How Extremists Took Over Israel,” a nearly 14,000-word investigation into half a century of Israeli authorities ignoring or condoning violence by ultranationalists against Palestinians.

Declan Walsh and the staff of The New York Times were given the prize for war reporting for their ongoing coverage of devastation and destruction from the civil war in Sudan, including revealing that the United Arab Emirates was using a humanitarian effort in the country as cover while secretly funneling weapons to the side it supported.

The national reporting prize went to Katherine Eban, a special correspondent for Vanity Fair, for “Inside the Bungled Bird Flu Response, Where Profits Collide With Public Health,” which examined why a key government agency was slow to respond to the bird flu outbreak.