Transitions.AWARDED: The George Polk George Polk (17 October 1913, Fort Worth, Texas - May 1948) was an American journalist for CBS who disappeared in Greece and was found dead a few days later on Sunday May 16, 1948, shot at point-blank range in the back of the head, and with hands and feet tied. Award, to New York Daily News New York Daily News Morning daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson and his cousin Robert McCormick as a subsidiary of the Tribune Co. of Chicago. The first successful tabloid-format newspaper in the U.S. editorial writer and Advocate columnist Jonathan Capehart, April 18, The award honors the Daily News editorial board's series "New York's Harvest of Shame Harvest of Shame is a 1960 made for television documentary presented by broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow on CBS. It shows the plight of American migrant agricultural workers. ," ELECTED: Lesbian community leader Patty Sheehan, to a seat on the Orlando, Fla., city council, April 11, PASSED: A law banning recognition of same-sex marriages in Colorado, by the state legislature, April 13, Gov. Bill Owens has promised to sign the bill into law. REINSTATED: The Rev. Gregory Dell, as pastor of Chicago's Broadway United Methodist Church United Methodist Church, in the United States, religious body formed by the union in 1968 of the Evangelical United Brethren Church and the Methodist Church (see Methodism). , effective July 1, Dell was suspended last year after presiding over a same-sex union. |
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