This week! Join us at the Journalism Awards dinner Thursday, Aug. 4

The National Press Club Awards dinner is always a good time. So get a ticket for the Thursday night, Aug. 4, event and come by!

There is still time to join the celebration. The reception starts at 6 p.m. and dinner begins at 7 p.m. Tickets are $50 and must be reserved through Eventbrite. For a link to the website to get tickets, click here.

At the awards dinner, the Press Club will also announce its annual scholarships for talented young people interested in journalism.

The Baltimore Sun, The Wall Street Journal and a freelance columnist who now works for USA Today won top awards in the 2016 National Press Club Journalism Contest. The Sun won the Breaking News Award for its coverage of the riots following the death of Freddie Gray, while Adam Entous won the Edwin Hood Diplomatic Award for the Journal for his stories on the erosion of relations between the United States and Israel. Jill Lawrence, now with USA Today, won the Lee Walczak Award for her freelance columns on the 2016 presidential candidates.

The Associated Press won a consumer journalism-newspapers award for its ground-breaking “Seafood from Slaves” stories about the fishing industry in Southeast Asia that resulted in the freeing of 2,000 slaves. Alexandra Petri of The Washington Post won the Angele Gingras Award for humor writing.