Stars and Stripes Wins Polk Award for Series on the Pentagon's PR Firm Controversy

A team of reporters at the independent military newspaper Stars and Stripes snagged a 2009 George Polk Award for a series of stories about the Rendon Group’s profiling of journalists covering the war in Afghanistan. Reporters Charlie Reed, Kevin Baron and Leo Shane III wrote a number of scoops about how the agency profiled and evaluated journalists in attempt to steer coverage on behalf of the Pentagon.