NEW YORK, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- The Washington Post (NYSE:WPO)'s Dana Priest, who reported on secret CIA prisons, and the hurricane-ravaged News Orleans Times-Picayune will receive 2006 Polk Awards.

Priest and the staff of the Times-Picayune were among winners in 14 categories announced Monday who will receive George Polk Awards, Long Island University officials said.

Priest's uncovering of the CIA-run prisons won the honor for National Reporting. Post reporters Joe Stephens and David Ottaway won the Polk Foreign Reporting category for their work in Afghanistan.

The Times-Picayune won for Metropolitan Reporting for the staff's work in publishing through the Hurricane Katrina disaster.

The New York Times (NYSE:NYT) won two Polk Awards with Frank Rich taking the prize for Commentary and Barry Meier for Business Reporting.

Other Polk Awards will be given to: reporter Cam Simpson and photographer Jose Moré of the Chicago Tribune for International Reporting; ABC News correspondents Brian Ross and reporter Richard Esposito for Television Reporting; Jerry Mitchell of the Jackson, Miss., Clarion-Ledger for Justice Reporting; Bloomberg News' David Evans, Michael Smith and Liz Willen for Health Reporting; Marcus Stern and Jerry Kammer of Copley News Service and Dean Calbreath of the San Diego Union-Tribune for Political Reporting; Adam Clay Thompson of The San Francisco Bay Guardian for Local Reporting; Victor Navasky, author of "A Matter of Option" the Polk Book Award; independent radio producer JoAnn Mar for Radio Reporting.

Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman will be given the George Polk Career Award.

The Polk Awards, named for a journalist killed while covering the civil war in Greece in 1948, have been given since 1949. The formal presentation of the awards will be April 19 in New York.