Tickets on sale for Nov. 21 Fourth Estate Award Gala honoring Axios’ Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen
Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei, co-founders of two digital news outlets that have revolutionized how audiences consume their news, will receive the National Press Club’s Fourth Estate Award during a gala in their honor on Nov. 21. The award recognizes journalists who have made significant contributions to the field and is the Club’s most esteemed prize.
Allen and VandeHei co-founded Axios, which they launched with co-founder Roy Schwartz in 2017. Axios is among the most celebrated digital media success stories of the past decade and was acquired by Cox Enterprises in 2022. They launched Axios Local in 2021 to provide original reporting, scoops, and local coverage worthy of readers’ time. Axios Local is now in 30 markets around the country and has nearly two million subscribers. Learn more about the honorees.
The 2024 Fourth Estate Award Gala will take place at the National Press Club on Thursday, Nov. 21, with the honorees joining us to accept their award. Guests in the Washington, D.C., area can attend in person for an elegant dinner and black-tie celebration in the historic ballroom of the National Press Club.
The gala will begin with a reception at 6 p.m. ET followed by dinner and the awards program starting at 7 p.m. in the ballroom. Tickets for the gala are $200 for National Press Club members, and $350 for members of the public.
The Fourth Estate is the top honor bestowed on a journalist by the National Press Club Board of Governors. Previous winners include: Christiane Amanpour, Dean Baquet, Marty Baron, Wolf Blitzer, Tom Brokaw, Walter Cronkite, Lester Holt, Gwen Ifill, Andrea Mitchell, Clarissa Ward, Kristen Welker, and Susan Zirinsky.
The evening also will honor the winners of the John Aubuchon Press Freedom Awards:
Mississippi Today, a nonprofit, non-partisan newsroom that is currently involved in a legal case to protect privileged documents used in producing a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation and named in an ensuing defamation case brought by the state’s former governor.
Yvette Cabrera, senior reporter at the Center for Public Integrity and a dedicated environmental justice journalist, will receive the 2024 Neil and Susan Sheehan Award for Investigative Journalism.
The gala is a fundraiser for the Club’s nonprofit affiliate, the National Press Club Journalism Institute. The Institute provides training that equips journalists with skills and standards to inform the public, provides career support for journalists, and provides scholarships to aspiring journalists.
Thank you to our generous sponsors:
Diamond
Axios
Silver
Bloomberg Philanthropies | News/Media Alliance | Robert Hastings & Associates LLC | The Wall Street Journal
Spirit
Distilled Spirits Council of the United States/Responsibility.org
Bronze
Addis Communications | Ballard Spahr | Bell Flight | Craig Newmark Philanthropies | Eileen and Cary O'Reilly | General Dynamics | Global Situation Room | Scripps News | Syngenta | Toyota | Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University | The Washington Post
Patron
The New York Times | Trib Total Media