Newsmen's Commission to Investigate the Murder of George Polk.

George Polk was a CBS news correspondent covering the Greek civil war who was murdered in Salonika on May 16th, 1948. In the course of his investigations, he had uncovered, and was about to publish, evidence of criminal activity by rightist forces, who had the support of the United States and Great Britain. The Newsmen's Commission to Investigate the Murder of George Polk was founded in 1948 at the initiative of the New York Chapter of the Newspaper Guild. Among its members were George Polk's brother, William Polk, and their cousin, William Price, who then covered the United Nations for the New York Daily News.

Another group, headed by Walter Lippman, composed of the elite of establishment journalists, the Overseas Writers Special Committee to Inquire Into the Murder of George Polk, also investigated the case. In Greece, in April, 1949, several people associated with the Greek Communist Pary were convicted of involvement in the murder of Polk, in a trial and verdict now widely believed to be fraudulent. The two groups of journalists split along Cold War lines. Lippman's group endorsed the verdict, while the Newsmens' Commission questioned it, leading to the dismissal of several of its members from their jobs.

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