Mr. Marshall does not belong to any traditional news organization. Instead, he is creating his own. His Web site, Talking Points Memo (www.talkingpointsmemo.com), is the first Internet-only news operation to receive the Polk [registration required] (though in 2003, an award for Internet reporting was given to the Center for Public Integrity), and certainly one of the most influential political blogs in the country.

The George Polk Award is like a Grammy for Journalism. Part of the reason we started this site is because we believe in the web as a legitimate media source and we want to contribute to it in a meaningful way.

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