Honors
- Recipient of the state of North Dakota's Roughrider Award.
- 1965: New York Newspaper Guild Page One Award
- 1950: Peabody Award
- 1964: Peabody Award
- 1976: Peabody Award
- Two-time Emmy Award winner
- 1981: Harry S Truman Award
- Two-time Overseas Press Club Award winner
- On October 5, 2007, the United States Postal Service announced that it would honor five journalists of the 20th century times with first-class rate postage stamps, to be issued on Tuesday, April 22, 2008: Martha Gellhorn; John Hersey; George Polk; Rubén Salazar; and Eric Sevareid. Postmaster General Jack Potter announced the stamp series at the Associated Press Managing Editors Meeting in Washington, D.C.. Sevareid covered World War II, on the fall of France to the Germans. He was a critic of Sen. Joseph McCarthy's anti-communism campaign.
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