Polk Award Winners: Brian Howey
Brian Howey is a freelance journalist who won the Polk Award for Justice Reporting after exposing a deceptive police tactic widely used in California. He began the project, which was eventually published by the Los Angeles Times and Reveal, as a graduate student in the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.\n\u201cIt\u2019s one thing to hear about this tactic and hear about parents being questioned in this way. It\u2019s another thing entirely to hear the change in a parent\u2019s voice when they realize for the past 20 minutes they\u2019ve been speaking ill of a relative who\u2019s actually been dead the entire time, and to hear that wave of grief and sometimes that feeling of betrayal that cropped up in their voice and how the way that they spoke to the officers afterwards changed.\u201d\nThis is the fourth in a week-long series of conversations with winners of this year's\xa0George Polk Awards in Journalism.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices