Bloomberg News gets a Polk Award

RELEASE -- (Edited) --The Bloomberg News Service has won the George Polk Award for National Reporting. The award recognizes the late Mark Pittman and colleagues Bob Ivry, Alison Fitzgerald and Craig Torres, the Bloomberg reporters who wrote a series of stories seeking transparency and accountability from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. This is the second Polk for Bloomberg, which was recognized in 2006 for its health reporting on human drug testing.