Congratulations to
@Yamiche
Alcindor of The NewsHour/PBS, winner of the Aldo Beckman Award for Overall Excellence in White House Coverage from the
#WHCA
. To see more about the winning entry – and all of 2020 award winners – go to
The White House Correspondents' Association is pleased to announce that Maggie Haberman of The New York Times is the winner of the Aldo Beckman Memorial Award for her coverage of the White House.
@maggieNYT
The White House Correspondents' Association is pleased to announce that
@evanperez
,
@jimsciutto
,
@jaketapper
and
@carlbernstein
of CNN are the winners of the Merriman Smith Award for broadcast reporting on the White House under deadline pressure.
#whcd
The WHCA on President Trump's decision today:
“It is outrageous for the president to have left the hospital — even briefly — amid a health crisis without a protective pool present to ensure that the American people know where their president is and how he is doing. 1/2
#WHCA
President Olivier Knox on President Trump’s decision not to attend the association’s annual dinner April 27. “We’re looking forward to an enjoyable evening of celebrating the First Amendment and great journalists past, present, and future."
@OKnox
Congratulations to
@kaitlancollins
elected today to a three-year term on the
#WHCA
Board and to serve as WHCA President in the third year, 2024-2025.
For more,
Congratulations to
@tamarakeithNPR
, elected today by members of the White House press corps to represent them on the board of the
#WHCA
– AND to serve as president in 2022-2023. For more on the WHCA's work – or to make a tax deductible contribution – go to
The White House Correspondents' Association is pleased to announce that
Josh Dawsey is the winner of the Merriman Smith Award for print reporting at Politico on the White House under deadline pressure.
@jdawsey1
Response to news reports of a Trump-ordered boycott of the Correspondents' Dinner:
#We
’re looking forward to an enjoyable evening of celebrating the First Amendment and great journalists past, present, and future." - Olivier Knox, President of the
#WHCA
Congratulations to
@CNN
, winners of the Merriman Smith Memorial Award for Excellence in Presidential News Coverage Under Deadline Pressure for Broadcast from the
#WHCA
. To see more about the winning entry – and all of 2020 award winners – go to
@realDonaldTrump
is second most accessible President to the press since Reagan, according to research by respected
@mkumar38
. Only Clinton faced questions more often.
Congratulations to
@PhilipRucker
of
@WashingtonPost
, winner of the WHCA’s Aldo Beckman Award for Overall Excellence in White House Coverage. For details,
A consortium of news organizations, including ProPublica, has won a legal fight against the Small Business Administration. It will now have to publicly release the names of borrowers who got government pandemic loans.
The White House Correspondents' Association is pleased to announce that
@NorahODonnell
of CBS This Morning has received an honorable mention in the Edgar A. Poe Award, for reports on Sexual Assault in the Air Force Academy.
The work of our press corps on behalf of our viewers, readers, the public and the record of history is demanding and needed for our democracy. I am honored to represent and serve our news community and beyond as
@whca
president for the next year.
The White House Correspondents' Association is pleased to announce that
@ddiamond
and
@rachanadixit
of Politico have received an honorable mention in the Edgar A. Poe Award, for their reporting on Tom Price’s private jet travel
The White House Correspondents’ Association regrets to announce that it is unable to go ahead with its 2020 dinner on April 25. We will get back to you soon with our alternative date. Thanks for your support.
-The WHCA
The Trump administration says the President has unbridled authority to pick for any reason those journalists who might cover him. A
#WHCA
amicus brief highlights the danger to all journalists and to public, if that claim stands. See our brief here
Congratulations to
@Phil_Mattingly
of
@cnn
, winner of the WHCA Award for Excellence in Presidential News Coverage Under Deadline Pressure – Broadcast. For details,
Congratulations to
@BarakRavid
, winner of the 2024 WHCA Aldo Beckman Award for Overall Excellence in White House Coverage. To see the winning coverage and more,
Congratulations to
@tamarakeithNPR
of
@nprpolitics
, recipient of an honorable mention in WHCA’s Merriman Smith Award for Excellence in Presidential News Coverage in Broadcast. For details,
When President Trump decided to leave the hospital to see supporters, he did without the pool of journalists that for decades has been there so the world can also watch when the president ventures out in public.
Before POTUS speech at Davos, screen on stage "played a video that included clips of the Women's March and related to climate change. At one point, the narrator talked about the importance of "not building walls" and working together." From press pool report.
Congratulations to
@philiprucker
, cited by the judges for an honorable mention in the Aldo Beckman Award for Overall Excellence in White House Coverage from the
#WHCA
. To see more – or to donate to support our work - go to:
Congratulations to
@joshgerstein
and
@alexbward
of
@POLITICO
, winners of the WHCA’s Katharine Graham Award for Courage and Accountability. For details,
Congratulations to
@peterbakernyt
of the
@nytimes
, winner of the WHCA’s 2024 Award for Excellence in Presidential News Coverage Under Deadline Pressure – Print. To see the winning coverage and more,
A Moore campaign spokesman is left speechless when
@jaketapper
informs him that the law does not require elected officials to be sworn-in using a Christian bible.
Congratulations to
@AlanCullison
,
@RebeccaBallhaus
and
@dnVolz
of
@WSJ
, winners of the Merriman Smith Memorial Award for Excellence in Presidential News Coverage Under Deadline Pressure for Print from the
#WHCA
. To see more – go to
“we are witnessing purposeful, calculated attacks meant to discredit the very integrity of journalism ...conducted by people who would prefer to wield power free from accountability and out of the public eye.
The people who lived through November 22, 1963 remember the moment - where they were, what they were doing - when the news of President Kennedy's death came. The nation and world stopped and came together to mourn the president.
📷:
"The Saudi authorities must immediately give a full and credible accounting of what happened to Khashoggi ... The country has stepped up its repression of critical journalists in the past year at home. We hope this has not now spread abroad."
RIP Connie Lawn. From WHCA prez
@margarettalev
: "Connie Lawn, an independent journalist who reported on the White House for the past half century, died today at her home in Virginia after her long struggle with Parkinson’s disease. She was 73."
Congratulations to
@DougMillsNYT
of the New York Times, winner of the inaugural Award for Excellence in Presidential News Coverage by Visual Journalists from the
#WHCA
. To see more about the winning entry – and all of 2020 award winners – go to
Biden administration is about to release a long-sought U.S. intelligence report concluding that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Congratulations to
@Weijia
of
Of
@CBSNews
, winner of an At-Large Seat on the WHCA Board for 2023-2026 – and serving as president in the third year, 2025-2026.
For more,