CNN's Wolf Blitzer to receive Fourth Estate Award Sept. 20

Wolf Blitzer, CNN’s lead political analyst and host of “The Situation Room,” will receive the Fourth Estate Award, the National Press Club's highest honor, at a dinner Sept. 20.

Blitzer is the 44th recipient of the Fourth Estate Award, which recognizes a journalist who has made significant contributions to the field. The award dinner this year also will honor our Aubuchon Press Freedom Award recipients, people whose work and lives have advanced the cause of press freedom and transparency around the world.

The dinner serves as a fundraiser for the National Press Club Journalism Institute, the Club's nonprofit affiliate, which promotes press freedom worldwide, provides professional development and training services to the journalism community, and scholarships to aspiring journalists.

To order tickets, see http://www.press.org/about/awards/fourth-estate-award