National Press Club Awards Dinner to recognize journalism's best work, Aug. 30

The 45th annual National Press Club Journalism Awards Dinner Thursday, Aug. 30, will recognize the best journalism in politics, consumer news and a variety of other categories.

The dinner recognizes the winners of the Club's annual journalism contest, which includes categories such as breaking news, regional reporting, online journalism, newsletter journalism and humor.

A special award, winner of which has not been announced, will honor the courage and dedication of a special group of journalists.

The event starts at 6 p.m. with a reception in the Holeman Lounge, followed by dinner at 7 p.m. in the Ballroom. Tickets can be purchased for $60 online.

An after party in the Reliable Source restaurant will follow dinner.

The Wall Street Journal, CQ Roll Call, Reuters and KDVR of Denver are among the first-place winners.

The Journal won the breaking news prize for its coverage of the Amazon/Whole Foods merger. Kate Ackley of CQ Roll Call won the Lee Walczak Award for Political Analysis and Club member John Donnelly, also of CQ Roll Call, won the Michael A. Dornheim Award for coverage of aerospace, defense, the airline industry, or aerospace science and engineering.

A team of reporters from Kaiser Health News won the Joan M. Friedenberg Online Journalism Award. A team from Reuters won the consumer news-newspaper prize for a thorough look at levels of lead contamination in water. KDVR won consumer journalism-broadcast for its look at explosives used by the government to kill coyotes -- a dangerous practice, and also won an Ann Cottrell Free Award for stories on unregulated horse racing in Colorado