National Mortgage News is a digital media website covering the mortgage sector in the United States. Its editor-in-chief is Heidi Patalano. National Mortgage News is owned by Arizent .
6-675: National Mortgage News' s predecessor, National Thrift News , was founded in 1976 by Stan Strachan, Wesley Lindow, and John R. Glynn. In 1988 National Thrift News won the Polk Award in Financial Reporting for its coverage of the savings and loan crisis ; in September 1987 it had been the first media outlet to break the Keating Five story. In 1989, it was the first to report on political considerations having delayed
12-646: A series of American journalism awards presented annually by Long Island University in New York in the United States. A writer for Idea Lab, a group blog hosted on the website of PBS , described the award as "one of only a couple of journalism prizes that means anything". The award is described as follows: For 75 years, LIU has been the proud home of the George Polk Awards in Journalism,
18-522: The Greek Civil War . In 2008, Josh Marshall 's blog , Talking Points Memo , was the first blog to receive the Polk Award in recognition of its reporting on the 2006 U.S. Attorneys dismissal scandal . In 2009, John Darnton , a former editor with The New York Times , was named curator of the George Polk Awards. In 2024, The New York Times was awarded three Polk Awards for
24-648: The closing of the Neil Bush -directed Silverado Savings and Loan in Denver. Subsequently, as thrift institutions began failing, it changed its name to National Thrift and Mortgage News , and then in 1992 to National Mortgage News . In 1995 Faulkner and Gray, which itself was part of the Thomson Corporation , acquired National Mortgage News . Stan Strachan remained publisher until his death in early 1997, at which point Tim Murphy took over as publisher of
30-464: The first major award of its kind to recognize reporting across all media. This prestigious honor focuses on the intrepid, bold, and influential work of the reporters themselves, placing a premium on investigative work that is original, resourceful, and thought-provoking. The awards were established in 1949, in memory of George Polk , a CBS News correspondent who was murdered in March 1948 while covering
36-573: The paper. After a reorganization in 2000, the paper became part of Thomson Media, which in turn was sold by its parent company to Investcorp and renamed SourceMedia . Observer Capital acquired the company from Investcorp in August 2014. SourceMedia is now named Arizent . The paper's target audience is the US mortgage sector. About three quarters of subscribers are C-level executives. Polk Award The George Polk Awards in Journalism are
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