The White House Correspondents' Association represents the White House press corps in its dealings with the administration on coverage-related issues.
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Judge rules White House cannot bar AP journalists.
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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 whca.press/award/2020-award-…
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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
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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
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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
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WHCA Announces Daily Show’s @roywoodjr of @TheDailyShow as Entertainer for 2023 Dinner
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"Now more than ever, the American public deserves independent coverage of the president so they can be reliably informed about his health.” 2/2
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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.
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Introducing the 2020 White House Correspondents’ Dinner – With host Kenan Thompson and featured entertainer Hasan Minhaj. For more info: whca.press
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Statement from WHCA president @tamarakeithNPR on the online harassment of White House journalist.
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WHCA ANNOUNCES TREVOR NOAH AS ENTERTAINER FOR 2022 DINNER @TheDailyShow @Trevornoah whca.press/2022/02/14/whca-a…
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‘The government’s story keeps changing’: CNN seen as likely to prevail in White House fight politico.com/story/2018/11/1…
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WHCA Announces Acclaimed Author Ron Chernow as Featured Speaker for 2019 Annual Dinner. For more, whca.press/2018/11/19/whca-a…
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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 whca.press
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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
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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 whca.press/award/2020-award-…
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The @WHCA is pleased to host President Biden and Dr. Jill Biden as we honor the First Amendment at our dinner on April 30.
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@realDonaldTrump is second most accessible President to the press since Reagan, according to research by respected @mkumar38. Only Clinton faced questions more often.
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Shameful. In prison for the “crime” of seeking the truth. washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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Congratulations to @PhilipRucker of @WashingtonPost, winner of the WHCA’s Aldo Beckman Award for Overall Excellence in White House Coverage. For details, whca.press/
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Wilson Roosevelt Jerman, White House staffer who served 11 presidents, dies of coronavirus at 91 - CBS News cbsnews.com/news/wilson-roos…
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"An Assault on the First Amendment" - @ZekeJMiller and #WHCA on punishment of journalist @pwidakuswara at Voice of America
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Congratulations to Jonathan Karl of ABC News, elected today to be president of the White House Correspondents' Association in 2019-20. #WHCA
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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. propublica.org/article/judge…
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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.
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Dispatching “reporters” to help a senate candidate and discredit the story quoting women about him.
Breitbart has dispatched two reporters to Alabama with a mission: discredit the allegations against Roy Moore
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RIP Mark Knoller, a widely respected longtime White House correspondent for CBS News. The WHCA cited his excellent reporting and his value to the public - and the White House press corps – with the invaluable and meticulously detailed records he kept personally on presidential events and events when it honored him with the coveted Aldo Beckman Memorial Award for Excellence in White House Coverage in 2010. cbsnews.com/news/mark-knolle…
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Kelly O’Donnell is the new president of the White House Correspondents’ Association.
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.
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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
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The WHCA board is protesting strongly against how today's gaggle is being handled by the White House. We ... tmi.me/1fhPqd
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First things first. Before the tables are even set up for tonight’s #WHCA dinner, the First Amendment banner is up. #journalism.
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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
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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 documentcloud.org/documents/…
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On @ReliableSources, @tarapalmeri says White House "threatened to try to remove me from the #WHCA, which they don't have the power to do."
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Congratulations to @Phil_Mattingly of @cnn, winner of the WHCA Award for Excellence in Presidential News Coverage Under Deadline Pressure – Broadcast. For details, whca.press/award/2023-award-…
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On @ReliableSources, @jeffmason1 says White House wanted #WHCA to issue statement criticizing @tarapalmeri for an article. He refused.
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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, whca.press/award/2024-award-…
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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, whca.press/
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WHCA President @tamarakeithNPR: Online harassment of White House journalist @SabrinaSiddiqui is “unacceptable.”
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'It's astonishing': The demise of the daily White House press briefing | US news | The Guardian theguardian.com/us-news/2018…
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White House reporter suspected to have coronavirus, WHCA says politico.com/news/2020/03/23…
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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.
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Just announced by @whca President @margarettalev: Our new website is live at WHCA.press. Learn more about our mission here:
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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: whca.press/award/2020-award-…
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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.
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The White House Correspondents' Association looks forward to having its annual dinner on April 29. The WHCA ... tmi.me/1fhQ7v
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Congratulations to @joshgerstein and @alexbward of @POLITICO, winners of the WHCA’s Katharine Graham Award for Courage and Accountability. For details, whca.press/award/2023-award-…
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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, whca.press/award/2024-award-…
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Congratulations to @stevenportnoy, elected today by fellow White House journalists to serve as president of the #WHCA in 2021-2022.
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Moore campaign spox thinks law mandates that office holders be sworn in on a Christian bible.
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.
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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 whca.press/award/2020-award-…
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White House spokesman refuses to answer questions on the record from reporters latimes.com/politics/washing…
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“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. washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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WHCA Announces featured entertainer for 2024 dinner. whca.press/2024/02/09/saturd…
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We remember.
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.
📷: jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/…
ALT Groups of people stand on the street outside the White House.
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"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." cpj.org/2018/10/cpj-calls-on…
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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."
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WHCA To Honor First Two Black Women of White House Press Corps. whca.press/2022/04/25/whca-t…
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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. washingtonpost.com/national-…
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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 whca.press/award/2020-award-…
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Ahead of Trump Bible photo op, police forcibly expel priest from St. John's church near White House religionnews.com/2020/06/02/…
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Gwen Ifill of @NewsHour and Bill Plante of @CBSNews to be honored posthumously with the WHCA’s Dunnigan-Payne Prize for lifetime career achievement. whca.press/2023/04/14/gwen-i…
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