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Note: Award years represent the date the work was published/broadcast, which is always one year before the prize was awarded.
The Aldo Beckman Memorial Award 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. (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.
Katharine Graham Award for Courage and Accountability 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.
Award for Excellence in Presidential News Coverage by Visual Journalists $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." 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 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.
Raymond Clapper Memorial Award 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. 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. ==See also==