Polk Award Winners: Jason Motlagh

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Apr 19, 202440:50News & Politics

Jason Motlagh, a journalist and filmmaker, is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and the founder of Blackbeard Films. He won the Polk's Sydney Schanberg Prize for “This Will End in Blood and Ashes,” an account of the...

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