Polk Award Winners: Lori Hinnant

Published: April 25, 2023, 12:44 p.m.

b"Lori Hinnant is a reporter for the Associated Press. Along with videojournalist Mstyslav Chernov, photographer Evgeniy Maloletka, and video producer Vasilisa Stepanenko, she won the George Polk Award for war reporting for covering the siege of Mariupol.\\n\\u201cIt\\u2019s really easy when you see raw footage flash by on the television to just see it as war as hell and this is very abstract. These are people with lives that were utterly ruined and they want to tell their stories. I mean, we\\u2019re not talking to people who don\\u2019t want to talk to us. And when you find out what happened the day their lives were changed, it really changes it.\\u201d\\nThis is the second 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"