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A Polk award for journalism has gone to a piece of mobile phone journalism for the first time. A video of the death of Neda Agha-Soltan, who died during anti-government protests in Iran in 2009, was sent to The Guardian and later put on YouTube. “This video footage was seen by millions and became an iconic image of the Iranian resistance,” said John Darnton, curator of the Polk Awards, in the New York Times. “We don’t know who took it or who uploaded it, but we do know it has news value. This award celebrates the fact that, in today’s world, a brave bystander with a cellphone camera can use video-sharing and social networking sites to deliver news.”