University announced winners for the annual george polk awards in journalism. They talked about the challenges reporting during wartime domestically and internationally. This runs one hour. Good afternoon and welcome. I am john darnton the curator of the george polk awards and it is my pleasure to announce the winners for the most outstanding works of journalism in 2019. I would like to express my gratitude to long island university, the sponsor of the klein, li kimberly you president , for her unflagging support. I would like to thank my friend and colleague, ralph engleman, our faculty coordinator. As many of you know our awards were established in 1949 to commemorate george polk, the cbs correspondent assassinated the year before during the greek civil war. Yeare now in our 71st having bestowed, as of today, 3125 prizes. Legacy,ng with polks our judges on a reporters whenever possible and not just their news organizations. Dogged out those who are in their investigations, resourcefu
Talk about reporting during wartime, both domestically and internationally. John good afternoon and welcome. Im john darnton, the curator of the george polk awards. It is my pleasure to announce the winners for the most outstanding works of journalism in 2019. I would like to express my gratitude to long island university, the sponsor, and in particular, dr. Kimberly klein, liu president , for her unflagging support. I want to thank my friend and colleague ralph engelman, our faculty coordinator. As many of you know, our awards were established in 1949 to commemorate george polk. The cbs correspondent assassinated the year before during the greek civil war. We are now in our 71st year, having bestowed as of today 3125 prizes. In keeping with his legacy, our judges honor reporters whenever possible and not just their news organizations. We seek out those who are dogged in their investigations, resourceful in their tactics, and intrepid in overcoming the odds, whether it is sending dispa
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Yearoveryear number of six point 3 . Kind of a mixed bag with regard to some of the key headline embraced. Key headline numbers. Inflation and a Housing Department that seems to be chugging along. Guy the real number that stands out throughout the day is the capital goods number. Quite soft. Months this time really picking up. That is a sign of strength coming out of the u. S. Economy but i dont think people had anticipated and thats probably why we have seen yields rising at the front end today. These numbers confirm for the inflation story is going. Weve been hearing from the fed time and again they want to get back to target. They want to get some of these Inflation Numbers a little bit higher. Capital goods numbers drawing a lot of attention across the numbers. Start with the durable goods report and those capital goods numbers. Mark the numbers have been bad all year. In the month of october they decided they needed to go out and spend some money that thats good news for the econo