The White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) is an organization of journalists who cover the White House and the president of the United States. The WHCA was founded on February 25, 1914, by journalists in response to an unfounded rumor that a United States congressional committee would select which journalists could attend press conferences of President Woodrow Wilson.

The WHCA operates independently of the White House. Among the more notable issues handled by the WHCA are the credentialing process, access to the president and physical conditions in the White House press briefing rooms. Its most high-profile activity is the annual White House Correspondents' dinner, which is traditionally attended by the president and covered by the news media. Except for Donald Trump, every president has attended at least one WHCA dinner, beginning with Calvin Coolidge in 1924.

The leadership of the White House Correspondents' Association includes:

• Officers
  • President: Kelly O'Donnell, NBC News
  • Vice President: Eugene Daniels, Politico
  • Treasurer: Weijia Jiang, CBS News
  • Secretary: Sara Cook, CBS News
• Board members
  • Andrew Harnik, Associated Press
  • Jacqui Heinrich, Fox News
  • Justin Sink, Bloomberg News
  • Courtney Subramanian, Los Angeles Times
  • Karen Travers, ABC News
• Executive Director
  • Steven Thomma

The WHCA is responsible for assigned seating in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room in the White House.

The WHCA's annual dinner, begun in 1921, has become a Washington, D.C. tradition, and is traditionally attended by the president and vice president. Except for Donald Trump, every president has attended at least one WHCA dinner, beginning with Calvin Coolidge in 1924. The dinner is traditionally held on the evening of the last Saturday in April at the Washington Hilton.

Until 1962, the dinner was open only to men, even though WHCA's membership included women. At the urging of Helen Thomas, President John F. Kennedy refused to attend the dinner unless the ban on women was dropped.

Prior to World War II, the annual dinner featured singing between courses, a homemade movie, and an hour-long, post-dinner show with big-name performers. Since 1983, the featured speaker has usually been a comedian, with the dinner taking on the form of a comedy roast of the president and his administration.

The dinner also funds scholarships for gifted students in college journalism programs.

Many annual dinners have been cancelled or downsized due to deaths or political crises. The dinner was cancelled in 1930 due to the death of former president William Howard Taft; in 1942, following the United States' entry into World War II; and in 1951, over what President Harry S. Truman called the "uncertainty of the world situation." In 1981, Ronald Reagan did not attend because he was recuperating after the attempted assassination the previous month, but he did phone in and told a joke about the shooting.

During his presidency, Donald Trump did not attend the dinners in 2017, 2018, and 2019. Trump indicated that he might attend in 2019 since this dinner did not feature a comedian as the featured speaker. However, on April 5, 2019, he announced that he again would not attend, calling the dinner "so boring, and so negative," instead hosting a political rally that evening in Wisconsin. On April 22, Trump ordered a boycott of the dinner, with White House Cabinet Secretary Bill McGinley assembling the agencies' chiefs of staff to issue a directive that members of the administration not attend. However, some members of the administration attended pre- and post-dinner parties.

The WHCD has been increasingly criticized as an example of the coziness between the White House press corps and the administration. The dinner has typically included a skit, either live or videotaped, by the sitting U.S. president in which he mocks himself, for the amusement of the press corps. The press corps, in turn, hobnobs with administration officials, even those who are unpopular and are not regularly cooperative with the press. Increasing scrutiny by bloggers has contributed to added public focus on this friendliness.

After the 2007 dinner, New York Times columnist Frank Rich implied that the Times would no longer participate in the dinners. Rich wrote that the dinner had become "a crystallization of the press's failures in the post-9/11 era" because it "illustrates how easily a propaganda-driven White House can enlist the Washington news media in its shows".

Other criticism has focused on the amount of money actually raised for scholarships, which has decreased over the past few years.

The dinners have drawn increasing public attention, and the guest list grows "more Hollywood". The attention given to the guest list and entertainers often overshadows the intended purpose of the dinner, which is to "acknowledge award-winners, present scholarships, and give the press and the president an evening of friendly appreciation". This has led to an atmosphere of coming to the event only to "see and be seen". This usually takes place at pre-dinner receptions and post-dinner parties hosted by various media organizations, which are often a bigger draw and can be more exclusive than the dinners themselves.

The public airings of the controversies around the dinner from the mid-2000s onward gradually focused concern about the nature of the event. While interest in the event from entertainers, journalists, and political figures was high during the Obama administration, by the period of the Trump administration, interest gradually slowed in attending, especially after President Trump announced he would not attend, nor his staff. Business related to the weekend event slowed considerably, including at hotels, high-end restaurants, salons, caterers, and limo companies. During the Trump administration, some media companies stopped hosting parties, while other of the roughly 25 events held during the three-day period gained more prominence as signs of social status. By 2019, the dinner and associated parties had returned somewhat to their previous nature as networking and media functions, with packed houses of media industry employees and Washington political figures.

After the April 30, 2022, dinner, several attendees, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken tested positive for COVID-19. However, no cases of serious illness were reported as a result of the dinner.

Date	Performer(s)	Notes
May 7, 1921
May 3, 1924		President Coolidge becomes the first President to attend the dinner
1930	—	Dinner canceled due to the death of former president William Howard Taft on March 8
March 15, 1941
1942	—	Dinner canceled following the United States' entry into World War II
February 12, 1943
March 4, 1944	Bob Hope, Fritz Kreisler, Gracie Fields, Pedro Vargas, Fred Waring, Elsie Janis, Ed Gardner, Nan Merriman, Robert Merrill, and Frank Black
March 1945	Frank Sinatra, Danny Thomas, Jimmy Durante, Fanny Brice, Danny Kaye, and Garry Moore
March 23, 1946	Ed Sullivan (host); featured performers included Herb Shriner, Señor Wences, Paul Draper, Larry Adler, and Sugar Chile Robinson.
March 6, 1948	Spike Jones
March 14, 1949
1951	—	Dinner canceled due to what President Truman referred to as the "uncertainty of the world situation."
May 1953	Bob Hope
c. Feb. 27, 1954	Milton Berle, The Four Step Brothers, Jaye P. Morgan, The McGuire Sisters, and Irving Berlin performed.	Held at the Statler Hotel. Berlin performed an original song, "I Still Like Ike," to honor President Eisenhower.
March 1955	Duke Ellington, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Channing Pollock
May 1956	James Cagney emceed; Nat King Cole, Patti Page, and Dizzy Gillespie performed.
October 12, 1959
February 25, 1961	The Peiro Brothers (jugglers), Julie London, Dorothy Provine, Mischa Elman, and Jerome Hines
April 27, 1962	Peter Sellers, Gwen Verdon, Richard Goodman, and Benny Goodman shared hosting duties.	Event opened to female correspondents for the first time.
May 24, 1963	Merv Griffin emceed; Barbra Streisand performed.
May 21, 1964	Duke Ellington, the Smothers Brothers
May 11, 1968	Richard Pryor
May 3, 1969	The Disneyland Golden Horseshoe Revue
May 2, 1970	George Carlin
May 8, 1971		President Nixon was in attendance; he later described the dinner as "probably the worst of this type that I have attended," and called the attendees "a drunken group; crude, and terribly cruel."
1972		President Nixon declined to attend and sent his wife, Pat Nixon, in his place.
April 14, 1973		Held in the International Ballroom of the Washington Hilton Hotel
May 4, 1974		Nixon again declined to attend; Vice President Ford came in his place.
May 3, 1975	Danny Thomas and Marlo Thomas
May 1, 1976	Bob Hope emceed and Chevy Chase performed.	When President Ford rose to speak, he pretended to fumble, and began his speech with "Good evening. I'm Gerald Ford and you're not"—a reference to Chase's catchphrase from Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update.
April 30, 1977
April 29, 1978		President Carter declined to attend, sending press secretary Jody Powell in his place.
April 28, 1979
May 3, 1980	Preservation Hall Jazz Band
April 25, 1981		President Reagan did not attend because he was recuperating after the attempted assassination the previous month.
April 24, 1982
April 23, 1983	Mark Russell	Russell's stand-up bits replaces the traditional cabaret
April 13, 1984	Rich Little
April 27, 1985	Mort Sahl
April 17, 1986	Dick Cavett
April 22, 1987	Jay Leno
April 21, 1988	Yakov Smirnoff
April 29, 1989	Jim Morris (Bush impersonator)	Garry Shandling made a surprise appearance.
April 28, 1990	Jim Morris
April 27, 1991	Sinbad
May 8, 1992	Paula Poundstone	Poundstone was the first solo female host.
May 1, 1993	Elayne Boosler	This was the first year that the dinner was televised on C-SPAN.
April 23, 1994	Al Franken
April 29, 1995	Conan O'Brien
May 4, 1996	Al Franken
April 26, 1997	Jon Stewart	Norm Macdonald delivered a Weekend Update parody.
April 25, 1998	Ray Romano
May 1, 1999	Aretha Franklin	A non-comedian was chosen to host because of the recent impeachment of President Clinton. NBC's Brian Williams performed a skit.
April 29, 2000	Jay Leno	President Bill Clinton also mocked himself in the short film President Clinton: The Final Days, which depicted him as a lonely man closing down a nearly deserted White House, riding a bicycle, and learning about the Internet with the help of actor Mike Maronna.
April 28, 2001	Darrell Hammond
May 4, 2002	Drew Carey
April 26, 2003	Ray Charles	President George W. Bush decided to eschew a comedian that year, given the recent invasion of Iraq.
May 1, 2004	Jay Leno
April 30, 2005	Cedric the Entertainer	First Lady Laura Bush also performed some jokes.
April 29, 2006	Stephen Colbert	Wikinews has related news: Comedians lampoon Bush at White House Correspondents' Dinner See also: Stephen Colbert at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Dinner Colbert performed while being in character of his television satire of a right-wing cable television pundit. Colbert also screened a video featuring Helen Thomas. Several of President Bush's aides and supporters walked out during Colbert's speech, and one former aide said that the President had "that look that he's ready to blow". Steve Bridges also performed a Bush impersonation.
April 21, 2007	Rich Little	David Letterman appeared by video with a Top 10 list of "favorite George W. Bush moments".
April 26, 2008	Craig Ferguson	Like his Late Late Show monologues, Ferguson appeared to go off script and started improvising new jokes. It was noted that President Bush had difficulty understanding Ferguson's Scottish accent.
May 9, 2009	Wanda Sykes
May 1, 2010	Jay Leno	Leno hosted for the fourth time, more than any other individual in the dinner's history. Leno had been chosen several weeks before his controversial Tonight Show conflict, and his use of recycled jokes was noted by critics.
April 30, 2011	Seth Meyers	Both President Barack Obama and then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates were seen laughing at Meyers' jokes about the government's apparent inability to track down Osama bin Laden, even though they were a day away from the operation to assassinate him. President Obama and Meyers also mocked then-Celebrity Apprentice host Donald Trump's role as the face of the birther movement. Trump (who was present at the dinner) would go on to be elected President of the United States five years later in the 2016 United States presidential election. Journalists that were present at the dinner say that being mocked by President Obama and Meyers led him to decide to run for President of the United States, but Trump would later deny this, saying that he had been considering a run for the Presidency for many years prior to the dinner.
April 28, 2012	Jimmy Kimmel
April 27, 2013	Conan O'Brien
May 3, 2014	Joel McHale	Prior to President Obama's remarks, a video with Vice President Biden and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who plays Vice President Selina Meyer on the HBO show Veep, is shown.
April 25, 2015	Cecily Strong	Keegan-Michael Key made a guest appearance as President Obama's "anger translator", Luther, a recurring character from the Comedy Central show Key & Peele.
April 30, 2016	Larry Wilmore	Wilmore delivered a controversial, searing routine targeting the president, elite media, lobbyists, politicians, and celebrities. At the end of the speech, Wilmore ended his set by thanking President Obama for having been the country's first black President and finished his speech by calling him "my nigga" on live television. This remark sparked controversy among the media, with some calling it disrespectful.
April 29, 2017	Hasan Minhaj	President Donald Trump did not attend the dinner. The last time a sitting president did not attend in person was Ronald Reagan in 1981, who was recovering from an assassination attempt. The Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein presented awards and spoke about the importance of the First Amendment.
April 28, 2018	Michelle Wolf	President Trump did not attend the dinner for the second consecutive year. Instead, he sent his press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Wolf received both praise and criticism for her monologue. The association released a rare statement regarding the monologue. Several attendees walked out in reaction to Wolf's "brutal" comments. After the dinner, newspaper The Hill informed the WHCA that it would no longer participate in the event, saying, "In short, there's simply no reason for us to participate in something that casts our profession in a poor light. Major changes are needed to the annual event."
April 27, 2019	Ron Chernow	President Trump did not attend the dinner for the third consecutive year. Additionally, Trump ordered some of his staff and administration members to boycott the dinner. The WHCA chose historian Ron Chernow as the featured speaker instead of a comedian after Wolf's controversial set.
2020	—	The dinner was originally scheduled for April 25, 2020, with comedian Kenan Thompson hosting and political entertainer and former WHCD host Hasan Minhaj as the featured entertainment. On March 22 the dinner was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, without naming a substitute date. On April 13 a new date of August 29 was announced. On June 23 WHCA President Jonathan Karl announced that the dinner itself would be canceled, but that the WHCA was working on a virtual presentation format to honor award winners and scholarship recipients. On August 14 Hasan Minhaj spoke privately via Zoom with the WHCA 2020 scholarship recipients, who also attended a private online panel discussion by three veteran Washington political reporters that day.
2021	—	On April 14, 2021, WHCA executive director Steven Thomma announced that improvements in the pandemic situation had not been sufficient to allow the association to proceed with a large indoor event, and that no dinner would be held in 2021. However, the association still intended to select recipients for its annual journalism awards and student scholarships, and announced that it planned to go ahead with the dinner the following year, on April 30, 2022.
April 30, 2022	Trevor Noah	The dinner was held in person for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic. President Joe Biden attended the dinner, making him the first president to attend the dinner since Trump boycotted the event throughout his presidency.
April 29, 2023	Roy Wood Jr.
April 27, 2024	Colin Jost

Note: Award years represent the date the work was published/broadcast, which is always one year before the prize was awarded.

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Established in 1981 in memory of Aldo Beckman (1934–1980), the "late Chicago Tribune Washington bureau chief, a past president of the association.... Given annually to a Washington reporter 'who personifies the journalistic excellence as well as the personal qualities exemplified by Mr. Beckman, an award-winning White House correspondent.'" Awarded for overall excellence in White House coverage.

Year	Recipient	Employer	Ref
1981	Helen Thomas	UPI
1982	Rich Jaroslovsky	The Wall Street Journal
1983	Lou Cannon	The Washington Post
1984	David Hoffman	The Washington Post
1985	Robert Timberg	The Baltimore Sun
1986	W. Dale Nelson	Associated Press
1987	Gerald F. Seib	The Wall Street Journal
1988
1989	Ann Devroy	The Washington Post
1990	Kenneth T. Walsh	U.S. News & World Report
1991	Timothy J. McNulty	Chicago Tribune
1992	Thomas DeFrank	Newsweek
1993	Jeffrey Birnbaum	The Wall Street Journal
1994	Kathy Lewis	The Dallas Morning News
1995	John A. Farrell	The Boston Globe
1996	Todd Purdum	The New York Times
1997	Michael K. Frisby	The Wall Street Journal
1998	John Harris	The Washington Post
1999	Jeanne Cummings	The Wall Street Journal
2000	Steve Thomma	Knight Ridder
2001	Anne E. Kornblut	The Boston Globe
2002	Dana Milbank	The Washington Post
2003	David Sanger	The New York Times
2004	Susan Page	USA Today
2005	Carl Cannon	National Journal
2006	Kenneth T. Walsh	U.S. News & World Report
2007	Alexis Simendinger	National Journal
2008	Michael Abramowitz	The Washington Post
2009	Mark Knoller	CBS News
2010	Peter Baker	The New York Times
2011	Scott Wilson	The Washington Post
2012	Ryan Lizza	The New Yorker
2013	Glenn Thrush	Politico
	Brianna Keilar	CNN
2014	Peter Baker	The New York Times
2015	Carol Lee	The Wall Street Journal
2016	Greg Jaffe	The Washington Post
2017	Maggie Haberman	The New York Times
2018	McKay Coppins	The Atlantic
2019	Yamiche Alcindor	PBS NewsHour
2020	Philip Rucker	The Washington Post
2021	Jonathan Swan	Axios
2022	Matt Viser	The Washington Post
2023	Barak Ravid	Axios

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The award was established in 1970 as the Merriman Smith Memorial Award for outstanding examples of deadline reporting. (Smith died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1970.) The award was renamed in 2022 after the WHCA determined that Smith had supported excluding Black and female journalists from membership in the National Press Club and from attending the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

Year	Recipient	Category	Employer	Article / Show	Notes & Ref
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974	Douglas C. Wilson	Print	The Providence Journal	Resignation of President Nixon
1975	Aldo Beckman	Print	Chicago Tribune	"Sarah Jane Moore's assassination attempt on President Ford"
1976
1977	Michael J. Sniffen and Richard E. Meyer	Print	AP	Bert Lance used the same stock as collateral for two different loans.
1978	Edward Walsh	Print		The Camp David Summit Conference
1979
1980	John Palmer	Broadcast	NBC News	"...the failed attempt by President Jimmy Carter’s administration to rescue the American hostages in Iran."
	Lars-Erik Nelson and Frank Van Riper	Print	New York Daily News	"deadline coverage of the negotiations to free American hostages held in Iran during the Carter administration."
1981
1982
1983	Staff	Print	Newsweek	"Coverage of the bombing of Marine headquarters in Lebanon"
1984	David Hoffman	Print	The Washington Post	"President Reagan's blaming a terrorist attack on the U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut on the 'near destruction' of U.S. intelligence during the Carter administration."
1985
1986	Owen Ullmann	Print	Knight Ridder	"The Reykjavík Summit"
1987	Gerald F. Seib	Print	The Wall Street Journal
1988
1989	Norman D. Sandler	Print	UPI
1990	Steve Taylor	Broadcast	Unistar Radio Networks	"President Bush's trip to Saudi Arabia."
	Norman D. Sandler	Print	UPI	"1990 Helsinki summit"
1991	Susan Page	Print	Newsday	Gulf War
1992	Peter Maer	Broadcast	Mutual-NBC Radio	Live coverage of President George Bush's collapse at an official dinner in Tokyo
	David Espo	Print	AP	Deadline reporting on Election Day 1992
1993	Mara Liasson	Broadcast	National Public Radio
	Terrence Hunt	Print	Associated Press
1994	Mara Liasson	Broadcast	NPR
	William Neikirk	Print	Chicago Tribune
1995	Mark Knoller	Broadcast	CBS News	"Writing and broadcasting multiple breaking stories ... about a White House intruder."
	Peter Maer		Mutual/NBC Radio	"Outstanding broadcast of President Clinton's attendance at the funeral of the Israeli Prime Minister."
	Susan Cornwell	Print	Reuters America	President Clinton and taxes: "For getting a scoop from an on-the-record presidential speech.... Cornwell's entry was the only one that caused second-day stories (and more) to be written. It not only covered news; it created news."
1996	Mara Liasson	Broadcast	National Public Radio	"Spot news coverage of the 1996 election campaign"; "she found time to ... deliver an insightful audio portrait of a small California town that President Clinton visited last October."
	Ron Fournier	Print	Associated Press	"An exclusive on President Clinton's new cabinet choices for the second term."
1997	Peter Maer	Broadcast	NBC Radio/Mutual News	"Evocative radio account of President Clinton's visit to Little Rock Central High School, 40 years after the school was integrated."
	Ron Fournier	Print	Associated Press	"President Clinton's knee injury that sent him to the hospital in the middle of the night."
1998	Jodi Enda	Print	Knight Ridder	"President Clinton's meeting with survivors of genocide in Rwanda...."
1999	Gary Nurenberg	Broadcast	KTLA-TV, Tribune Broadcasting	"Monica Lewinsky Deposed"
	Jodi Enda	Print	Knight Ridder Newspapers	"A poignant story about an emotional day in Kosovo."
2000	Jim Angle	Broadcast	Fox News Channel
	Sandra Sobieraj	Print	Associated Press
2001	Peter Maer	Broadcast	CBS News
	Ron Fournier	Print	Associated Press
2002	Jim Angle	Broadcast	Fox News Channel
	David Sanger	Print	The New York Times
2003	Mike Allen	Print	The Washington Post
2004	Ron Fournier	Print	Associated Press
	Jackie Calmes	Print	The Wall Street Journal		Honorable Mention
2005	Terry Moran	Broadcast	ABC News
	Deb Riechmann	Print	Associated Press
2006	Martha Raddatz	Broadcast	ABC News
	David Sanger	Print	The New York Times
2007	Ed Henry	Broadcast	CNN
	Deb Riechmann	Print	Associated Press
2008	David Greene	Broadcast	NPR
	Sandra Sobieraj Westfall	Print	People magazine
2009	Jake Tapper	Broadcast	ABC News
	Ben Feller	Print	Associated Press
2010	Jake Tapper	Broadcast	ABC News
	Dan Balz	Print	The Washington Post
2011	Jake Tapper	Broadcast	ABC News	Reporting that "Standard & Poor was on the verge of downgrading America's triple-A credit rating because of concerns over political gridlock in Washington"
	Glenn Thrush, Carrie Budoff Brown, Manu Raju and John Bresnahan	Print	Politico	"The deal between Barack Obama and congressional Republicans to raise the U.S. debt ceiling."
2012	Terry Moran	Broadcast	ABC News	On-air interpretation of the Supreme Court ruling of Obama's Health Care Reform Law
	Julie Pace	Print	Associated Press	2012 Obama campaign's get-out-the-vote strategy
2013	Peter Maer	Broadcast	CBS News	"Sequestration"
	Peter Baker	Print	The New York Times	"Obama Seeks Approval by Congress for Strike in Syria"
2014	Jim Avila	Broadcast	ABC News	Cuba/Alan Gross
	Josh Lederman	Print	Associated Press	Fence Jumper
2015	Norah O'Donnell	Broadcast	CBS News	"60 Minutes interview with Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden on his decision not to run for president" in 2016.
	Matt Viser	Print	The Boston Globe	"An Inside Look at How the Iran Talks Unfolded"
2016	Edward-Isaac Dovere	Print	Politico	"How Obama set a trap for Raul Castro"
2017	Evan Perez, Jim Sciutto, Jake Tapper and Carl Bernstein	Broadcast	CNN	Intelligence community's briefing of Obama and Trump "that Russia had compromising information about Trump."
	Josh Dawsey	Print	Politico	"Resignation of White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer"
2018	Ed Henry	Broadcast	Fox News	Interview with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt
	Josh Dawsey	Print	Washington Post
2019	Alan Cullison, Rebecca Ballhaus, and Dustin Volz	Print	The Wall Street Journal	"Trump Repeatedly Pressed Ukraine to Investigate Biden's Son"
		Broadcast	CNN	"FBI. Open the door."
2020	Michael Balsamo	Print	Associated Press	"Disputing Trump, Barr says no widespread election fraud"
	Jonathan Karl	Broadcast	ABC News	Trump getting COVID and being rushed to the hospital
2021	Zeke Miller and Mike Balsamo	Print	Associated Press	CDC mask order
	Jonathan Karl	Broadcast	ABC News	January 6 United States Capitol attack coverage
2022	Jeff Mason	Print	Reuters	"Exclusive: Biden to waive tariffs for 24 months on solar panels hit by probe"
	Phil Mattingly	Broadcast	CNN	Zelensky's White House visit
2023	Peter Baker	Print	The New York Times	Coverage of President Biden's visit to Israel just days after the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel
	Tamara Keith	Broadcast	NPR	Audio report of President Biden’s trip to Israel

A $10,000 prize to "recognize an individual or newsgathering team for coverage of subjects and events of significant national or regional importance in line with the human and professional qualities exemplified by the late Katharine Graham, the distinguished former publisher of The Washington Post. Debuted in 2020.

Year	Recipient	Employer	Article / Show	Notes & Ref
2019		ProPublica	"Death in the Pacific"
2020		The Marshall Project, AL.com, the IndyStar, and Invisible Institute	"Mauled: When Police Dogs are Weapons"
2021		International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, The Washington Post, "and media partners around the world"	Pandora Papers
2022	Josh Gerstein and Alex Ward	Politico	Decision "to report, verify and publish the draft Supreme Court opinion reversing abortion rights – and the organization’s follow-up work exploring the consequences of the decision...."
2023		The Washington Post	"The Washington Post shows courage, sensitivity and originality in breaking with journalism industry norms to inform and show readers how the AR-15 weapon inflicts horrific damage to the human body."

$1,000 "award recognizes a video or photojournalist for uniquely covering the presidency from a journalistic standpoint, either at the White House or in the field. This could be breaking news, a scheduled event or feature coverage." Debuted in 2020.

Year	Recipient	Employer	Work	Notes & Ref
2019	Doug Mills	The New York Times	"The Pelosi Clap"
2020	Win McNamee	Getty Images	Trump and Fauci
2021	Brendan Smialowski	Agence France-Presse	"US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, President Joe Biden, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov wait for a meeting at Villa La Grange June 16, 2021, in Geneva."
2022	Doug Mills	The New York Times	"President Joe Biden walks between the Marine Honor Guard as he enters an event to celebrate the passage of H.R. 5376, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, on the South Lawn of the White House, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022."
2023	Doug Mills	The New York Times	President Biden boarding Air Force One as he leaves Warsaw, Poland

Named in honor of the distinguished correspondent Edgar Allen Poe (1906–1998), a former WHCA president unrelated to the American fiction writer of the nearly identical name. Funded by the New Orleans Times-Picayune and Newhouse Newspapers, the award honored excellence in news coverage of subjects and events of significant national or regional importance to the American people. The Edgar A. Poe Memorial Award was presented from 1990 to 2019, when it was replaced by the Katharine Graham Award for Courage and Accountability and the Award for Excellence in Presidential News Coverage by Visual Journalists.

Notable past winners of the award include Rochelle Sharpe, Marjie Lundstrom, Michael Tackett, Russell Carollo, Cheryl Reed, Michael Isikoff, Sam Roe, Sean Naylor, Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada, Marcus Stern, Megan Twohey, David Fahrenthold, and Norah O'Donnell.

Named in honor of Raymond Clapper (1892-1944) and given "to a journalist or team for distinguished Washington reporting." The award was presented from 1944 to 2003, usually at the WHCA dinner (although in the period 1951–1965 it was presented at the American Society of News Editors annual dinner).

In 2004, the award passed to the Scripps Howard National Journalism Awards. Under Scripps Howard, the Washington Reporting Raymond Clapper Award was presented until 2011, at which point it was discontinued.

Notable past winners of the Raymond Clapper Award included Ernie Pyle, Nicholas Lemann, Clark R. Mollenhoff, James Reston, Joseph Albright, Morton Mintz, Adam Liptak, Helene Cooper, Jean Heller, Newbold Noyes Jr., Thomas Lunsford Stokes, Tom Squitieri, Marcus Stern, Susan Feeney, Doris Fleeson, James Polk, James V. Risser, and William Neikirk.

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• Radio and Television Correspondents' Association
• Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner
• Not the White House Correspondents' Dinner
• National Press Club
• Parliamentary Press Gallery
• List of dining events

• Official website
• Presidential Remarks at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, March 15, 1941 to present at The American Presidency Project
• White House Correspondents' Dinner - 1921 - 2024 at Factba.se - Roll Call
• White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at C-SPAN (Archived May 2, 2011, at the Wayback Machine)