Former Cheney Free Press reporter part of Tampa Bay Times team to receive national honor for series
Cara Fitzpatrick interviews a Lakewood High School student in St. Petersburg as part of the Tampa Bay Times series "Failure Factories." Fitzpatrick and other Times reporters and staff won a George Polk Award for their work on the series.
Cheney High School alumna and former Free Press reporter Cara Fitzpatrick has been named a recipient of the prestigious George Polk Awards in Journalism for an education series she helped write as part of a team at the Tampa Bay Times. The Polk Awards are administered by Long Island University in New York, and are named for CBS news correspondent George Polk, who was murdered in 1948 while covering the civil war in Greece.
Seven New York Times journalists were also winners of Polk awards announced on Feb. 14, along with reporters from publications such as the Washington Post, Wall Street Journ...
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