Over the course of his career, he covered the Raymond Donovan investigations, the Bert Lance controversy, the Abscam scandal, and the financial dealings of John Zaccaro, husband of 1984 Democratic vice presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro.
[2] In 1974, he won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his coverage of the Watergate scandal for the Star.
After three years in the United States Navy, he attended Indiana University Bloomington where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and received his bachelor's degree in government in 1964.
[6] Polk covered the Watergate scandal extensively and received the Pulitzer Prize for his reportage in 1974.
His most famous stories include Abscam, the racketeering case against Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, and the Iran-Contra affair.