In journalism news, the winners of the 2011 George Polk Awards have been announced. The winners included a team of reporters at the Associated Press who exposed how the New York City Police Department built one of the largest domestic intelligence agencies in the country with help from the CIA. May Ying Welsh of Al Jazeera English won an award for her documentary on Bahrain’s crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. And The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer won for her profile of National Security Agency whistleblower Thomas Drake. New York Times reporter Anthony Shadid will be awarded posthumously for extraordinary valor for his work in the Middle East. He died last week in Syria.