Club's 49th Annual Journalism Awards Dinner to honor best journalism, Wednesday

One of the National Press Club’s premier events, its 49th Annual Journalism Awards Dinner, will feature a special presentation of the President’s Award honoring the late Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, Wednesday evening, Aug. 31.

The event begins at 6 p.m. with a reception in the Holeman Lounge followed by dinner and program in the Ballroom.

Tickets are $75 for the general public, $65 for members of the Club. They can be purchased online.  

Business attire is appropriate for attendees.

The dinner celebrates the best in broadcast and print stories from breaking news and Washington regional reporting to humor, political journalism and many other categories.

Award winners, announced Aug. 1 by Club President Jen Judson, includes investigative powerhouse ProPublica, which won one award for consumer journalism and helped two other organizations win prizes in the National Press Club journalism contest.

PBS/Frontline won two awards - including an Arthur Rowse award for coverage of Filipino journalist Maria Ressa and her staff in the run-up to an election in the Philippines. Retro Report won an Edwin M. Hood award in a joint effort with PBS/Frontline and ProPublica called ‘Massacre in El Salvador.’

National Public Radio’s All Things Considered won breaking news for its coverage of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.

The Miami Herald won consumer journalism-newspapers in a partnership with ProPublica. ProPublica won for its investigation of the nation’s food safety system.

Several of the winners focused on issues related to the 2020 elections. J. Scott Applewhite of The Associated Press won for his dramatic photography from the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. Jen Wieczner of Fortune Media won the Lee Walczak award for ‘Dominion Voting: Big Lies vs. Big Lawsuits.’

A new category this year is the Nell Minow Award for Cultural Criticism, won by the Los Angeles Times for its close look at the Latino ‘cultural zeitgeist.’

The President’s Award to be presented to Al Jazeera’s Shireen Abu Akleh, is given at the discretion of the Club president.