2016 NPC Journalism Awards Gala

Photo Credit: Joe Morton of the Omaha World-Herald (r) accepts the 2016 Washington Regional Reporting award (honorable mention) for a range of well-written stories of interest to his readership from NPC president Tommy Burr. Noel St. John

Photo Credit: Sam Davis, Managing Editor of The Baltimore Sun, speaks after accepting the 2016 Breaking News award for his paper's coverage of the riots in the spring of 2015 following the death of Freddie Gray. Noel St. John

Photo Credit: Mark Follman (r) of Mother Jones accepts the 2016 Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism for his coverage of how the media inspires mass shootings from NPC president Tommy Burr. Noel St. John

Photo Credit: Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian (r), who was held in an Iranian prison for 543 days, and NPC general manager Bill McCarren watch as Rezaian's wife Yegi speaks at the 2016 National Press Club Journalism Awards ceremony. Noel St. John