Polk Award winning photojournalists and writers share their experiences from covering war and delve more deeply into their stories.
MSTYSLAV CHERNOV, PHOTOJOURNALIST, FILMMAKER, WAR CORRESPONDENT AND NOVELIST, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Winner of the Polk Award for War Reporting for groundbreaking exclusive coverage of the siege of Mariupol at the outset of the war in Ukraine.
ALEX PERRY, CONTRIBUTING EDITOR, OUTSIDE MAGAZINE
Winner of the Sydney H. Schanberg Prize for his vivid investigative account of an ISIS attack on a remote town in Mozambique.
LYNSEY ADDARIO, PHOTOJOURNALIST, THE NEW YORK TIMES
Winner of the Polk Award for Photojournalism for an iconic image of the bodies of a woman and her two children struck by a Russian mortal shell that narrowly missed Ms. Addario.
MODERATOR: CHARLAYNE HUNTER-GAULT, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT, PBS NEWSHOUR
The award-winning print and broadcast journalist, author of five books, most recently My
People: Five Decades of Writing about Black Lives.
Presented with Long Island University (LOCATION: LIU Brooklyn, Library Learning Center, Ground Floor Flatbush Avenue (between DeKalb Avenue & Willoughby Street)
Light refreshments served in the LLC lobby starting at 5 PM