The White House Correspondents’ Association has announced the winners of its 2022 journalism awards for work done in 2021.
Winning a key award for excellence was Australian reporter Jonathan Swan who covers Washington for digital news publisher Axios. Jonathan is the son of Australian medico/reporter/out-of-home executive Dr Norman Swan.
The winners for presidential news coverage include journalists from America’s ABC News, AFP, the Associated Press and Axios.
The award-winning work covered efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, violence at the US Capitol, Covid, and a meeting between President Joe Biden and Vladmir Putin.
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, The Washington Post and an international consortium of other media partners was honoured for work exposing financial secrets of more than 330 current and former heads of state as well as the US role in the offshore system.
“Our panel of independent judges had a formidable task, reviewing dozens of worthy entries,” said WHCA president Steven Portnoy. “We are grateful for the panel’s efforts in identifying these winners, and we are excited to honour the recipients at our annual dinner.”
The awards will be presented at the WHCA Dinner on Saturday, April 30.
The Aldo Beckman Award for Overall Excellence in White House Coverage
Jonathan Swan, Axios
From the Judges:
The judges select Jonathan Swan for the Aldo Beckman award from a competitive list of entries that demonstrated the impact of White House policies and decisions on people’s lives. Swan’s riveting “Off The Rails” series describing the post-election turmoil in the White House illuminated, with speed and detail, the last-ditch efforts to overturn the election. The series also revealed President Trump’s ongoing attempts to put a loyalty stamp on the government’s national security apparatus. The stories, and their accompanying podcast, have been source material for the January 6 investigating committee and have remained relevant amid continued revelations about the events surrounding the assault on the Capitol.
See Swan’s award-winning work here.
Watch Swan in action Thursday night Australian time.