50th Annual National Press Club Journalism Awards Dinner

Aug 30 2023

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Aug 30, 2023 at 6:00pm

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Holeman Lounge and Ballroom

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Awards

The National Press Club will celebrate the best in broadcast and print stories from breaking news and Washington regional reporting to humor, political journalism and many other categories at the 50th Annual Journalism Awards Dinner. 

Please join us at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, August 30 starting with a reception in the Holeman Lounge followed at 7 p.m. with dinner and program in the ballroom. This event is business attire.

President's Award

The President’s award is given at the discretion of the President of the National Press Club and honor outstanding achievements in the field of journalism. Read the full statement here.

This year the President’s Award at the National Press Club will help call attention to the outstanding career of Las Vegas journalist Jeff German who was murdered outside his home in 2022. A local official, who was the subject of one of German’s investigations for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, is charged in the crime and the trial is scheduled for November.

Credit: Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post
Credit: Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post

Lizzie Johnson of the Washington Post will also be honored with a President’s Award. Soon after Jeff’s death, The Post was talking to the Review Journal team about what they could do to help and hit on the idea of following through one of the investigations Jeff was working on when murdered. The job on the Post side fell to Johnson who helped wrap up and write up German’s investigation into a Ponzi scheme that targeted Mormon communities. The idea that Jeff’s journalism would endure beyond his death is profoundly moving and hopefully a kind of deterrent to bad actors who think that a journalist’s work can be silenced by their murder. Lizzie’s work and the spirit behind it is a strong and positive message for all in journalism.

Winners

Consumer Journalism - Newspapers
Rolfe Winkler, Khadeeja Safdar and Andrea Fuller from the Wall Street Journal for “Uncontrolled Substances”

Consumer Journalism - Periodicals
A team of reporters from The Markup for “Pixel Hunt”

Consumer Journalism - Broadcast
Susan Hogan, Rick Yarborough, Steve Jones, Lance Ing and Carlos Olazagasti of WRC-TV NBC Washington for “Driveway Danger”

Breaking News - Print/Online
Alison Sider, Dawn Gilbertson and Jacob Passy of the Wall Street Journal for “Southwest's Holiday Meltdown”

Breaking News - Broadcast
Devin Dwyer, Sarah Herndon and Paul Strzegowski of ABC News for “Dobbs decision impact”

Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence - Print
Joel Schectman and Bozorgmehr Sharafedin from Reuters News for “America’s Throwaway Spies: How the CIA failed Iranian informants in its secret war with Tehran”

Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence - Broadcast
Nick Schifrin, Jack Hewson and Simon Ostrovsky, Eric O’Connor, Ed Ram, Volodymyr Solohub and Yegor Troyanovsky of PBS NewsHour for “War in Ukraine”

Washington Regional Reporting
Nick Grube of Honolulu Civil Beat

Arthur E. Rowse Award for Excellence in Examining the News Media - Print
Wesley Lowery from The Philadelphia Inquirer for “Black City, White Paper”

Newsletter Journalism
Somini Sengupta and Manuela Andreoni, The New York Times

Ann Cottrell Free Animal Reporting - Print
Marina Bolotnikova of The Intercept and The Guardian for coverage of poultry industry practices

Ann Cottrell Free Animal Reporting - Broadcast
A team of journalists from NBC News/The Pulitzer Center/Southeast Asia Globe for reporting on monkey poachers being enriched by the race for a covid vaccine

Joan M. Friedenberg Online Journalism Award
Yousur Al-Hlou and Masha Froliak of The New York Times for their coverage of the war in Ukraine

Angele Gingras Humor Award
Callum Borchers of The Wall Street Journal for “On the Clock”

Sandy Hume Memorial Award for Excellence in Political Journalism
Jacob Gardenswartz of The Wyoming Truth

Joseph D. Ryle Award for Excellence in Writing on the Problems of Geriatrics
Ava Kofman of ProPublica and The New Yorker for “The Hospice Hustle: Endgame”

Michael A. Dornheim Award
Craig Whitlock and Nate Jones of the Washington Post for “Foreign Servants: Retired U.S. Generals, Admirals Take Top Jobs With Saudi Crown Prince”

Lee Walczak Award for Political Analysis
Domenico Montanaro of National Public Radio for “Explaining the right and its impact on politics”

Nell Minow Award for Cultural Criticism
Aki Ito of Insider for “The Rise of ‘Quiet Quitting’”

News Photo Award
Emanuele Satolli of The Wall Street Journal for “Death and Devastation: A Visual Chronicle of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine”

Honorable Mentions

Consumer Journalism - Newspapers
Michael Hawthorne of The Chicago Tribune for “Forever Chemical Threatens Consumers”

Consumer Journalism - Broadcast
Vicky Nguyen, Joe Enoch, Adiel Kaplan, Jean Lee and Jamie Nguyen from NBC News for “Frontover Dangers”

Edwin M. Hood Award - Print
Barak Ravid of Axios for “Biden’s Peace: How the U.S. pushed normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel”

Washington Regional Reporting
Orion Donovan-Smith of the Spokane Spokesman-Review

Arthur E. Rowse Award for Excellence in Examining the News Media - Print
Alissa Quart of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project for “Make Journalism Work For Those Not Born Into an Elite Class”

Newsletter Journalism
Jamiles Lartey and team, The Marshall Project for their entry “Closing Argument”

Ann Cottrell Free Award - Print
Kenny Torrella of Vox for “The Fight for Animal Welfare though Alternative Meat Sources”

Ann Cottrell Free Award - Broadcast
Avery Travis, Chris Nelson, David Barer and Josh Hinkle of KXAN for “Vetting Your Pet’s Vet”

Joan M. Friedenberg Award
Sophia Jones, Nidžara Ahmetašević and Milivoje Pantović of Rolling Stone for “The DJ and the War Crimes”

Joseph D. Ryle Award for Excellence in Writing on the Problems of Geriatrics
Kitty Eisele of Texas Public Radio for "Twenty-Four Seven: A Podcast About Caregiving"

Michael A. Dornheim Award
A team of journalists from NBC News, The Washington Post, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism for “The Pentagon knows contractors for overseas bases have engaged extensively in trafficking workers despite ‘zero tolerance”

Lee Walczak Award for Political Analysis
Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux and Maggie Koerth of FiveThirtyEight for their abortion coverage

Nell Minow Award for Cultural Criticism
Jeremy Eichler of The Boston Globe for coverage of classical music

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