‘47 Percent’ Journo Wins Polk Award

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Updated Apr. 21, 2017 12:17PM EDT / Published Feb. 18, 2013 8:15AM EST

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Mitt Romney is probably thanking David Corn in a different way. The Mother Jones Washington bureau chief was awarded Monday the George Polk Award for political reporting for exposing Romney’s infamous remarks at a fundraiser about “47 percent” of Americans who receive entitlements. When the video went public in September, Romney had a difficult time recovering. Other winners of the Polk Awards included foreign-reporting awards for The New York Times’s David Barboza and the staff of Bloomberg News for stories on China; McClatchy Newspapers was honored for its coverage of the Syrian conflict; and John Hechinger and Janet Lorin of Bloomberg News won the national-reporting award.

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‘47 Percent’ Journo Wins Polk Award

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