Washington Post, Foreign Policy Magazine Pick Up Polk Awards

The Washington Post picked up two, while longtime Washington journalist Simeon Booker received the George Polk Career Award. Foreign Policy magazine’s Andrew Quilty received the Photography prize.

The first award for the Post, in the National Reporting category, is for the paper’s analysis and coverage of Americans killed by police in 2015. Here’s how WaPo’s Paul Farhi describes the results of that analysis:

The Post’s police-shooting project, which won for national reporting, found that 990 people were shot and killed by on-duty police officers in the United States in 2015 and that most of the dead were armed white men.