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In the "How to Fact-Check the 2024 Election" online briefing, professor and founder
@itsmikereilley
will show journalists tools and best practices to confront election misinformation. Register now for Oct. 18! 📅
Congratulations to
@drsanjaygupta
of
@CNN
who has won the
@NatPress
Chairman's Citation for his "tireless and distinguished" coverage of COVID-19: Please join us in honoring him on Feb. 18 at 5:30 pm. Register here:
The National Press Foundation is excited to welcome 20 journalists to its 2024 Widening the Pipeline Fellowship, designed to support journalists of color staying in – and leading – the newsrooms of tomorrow. Congratulations!
We are proud to announce our Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellowship 2021 class.
Over the course of the year, these fellows will discuss politics and policy with regulators, lawmakers, experts and the best reporters in the business.
1/3: Congratulations to the 25 journalists selected for our new Widening the Pipeline Fellowship! Over the next 12 months, fellows will complete training sessions in leadership, in-depth reporting and more to expand the pipeline of diverse journalists.
The National Press Foundation has selected 20 journalists for the 2024 class of the Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellowship. They now join a storied journalism program that has spanned 35 years and counting. Congratulations!
LIVE NOW:
@RevDrBarber
discusses poverty and inequality. This is the first event in a 4-month series of briefings to help journalists cover children and families in poverty.
The
@nytimes
’
@hannahdreier
has won the 2023 Feddie Reporting Award from the National Press Foundation for outstanding reporting about the impact of federal laws and regulations on local communities. Congratulations!
1/ Congrats to the 20 journalists selected for the Women in Politics Journalism Fellowship. We're thrilled to meet them in Washington, D.C. from April 15-18 for 4 days focused on covering women legislators.
1/3: Congratulations to the 20 journalists selected for NPF’s 2023 Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellowship! Over the year, fellows will network and discuss politics/policy with regulators, lawmakers, experts and the best reporters in the business.
“Do we need to hear the gunshots of their kids being slaughtered in the classrooms? Do we need to show the gunman or report his name? These are serious considerations that I think news leaders need to make,” said
@ShimonPro
of
@CNN
.
Live:
@drsanjaygupta
on the three lessons he has learned over the course of reporting on
#COVID19
: Humility, remembering this is a novel virus, and finally, in the paraphrased words of Maya Angelou; "it's not just what you say, it's how you make people feel."
#journalistsinspire
Congratulations to the 20 journalists selected to join NPF in San Francisco for our Reporting on Criminal Justice fellowship. We will see you all in November!
1/3: Congrats to the 20 journalists selected for our 2022 Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellowship! Throughout the year, they'll network and discuss politics and policy with regulators, lawmakers, experts and the best reporters in the business.
Congratulations to our 25 Reporting on Criminal Justice in the Age of George Floyd fellows who will travel to
#Chicago
next month! Special thanks to our program sponsor
@Arnold_Ventures
.
1/4: Manny García, who led the Austin American-Statesman's coverage of the
#Uvalde
school shooting, has won the Benjamin C. Bradlee Editor of the Year Award from the National Press Foundation. Congratulations
@manny_garcia1
@statesman
@gannett
Good investigative reporting is a matter of both planning and luck – and being able to jump on the opportunity.
@Fahrenthold
of
@washingtonpost
shares how he wandered into an investigation of Donald Trump's charitable giving:
"An assault on press freedom against one
@WSJ
reporter and one radio reporter in one far-off place is an attack on the fundamental freedoms we rely on to do all of our jobs,"
@paulwsj
said of Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva just hours before news of Alexei Navalny's death.
We stand with
@whca
@NewsEditors
@APME
@ONA
and all journalists who condemn the Trump White House for pulling Jim Acosta's credentials for simply doing his job.
“We’re not talking enough to people,” said
@NPR
’s
@nprscottsimon
at Thursday's
#NPFawards
. “We talk to pundits and to each other, and to people with titles — often long ones — that disclose by themselves what they’re going to say.”
The National Press Foundation today announced the appointment of journalist Anne Godlasky as president. She will be introduced tonight at the
@NatPress
annual awards dinner in Washington, D.C.
#journalismmatters
“We have to deal with the lies constantly. … The incentives to lie, the incentives to be as obnoxious as you can are way up here and the downsides of lying are way down here,"
@GabrielSterling
told
#NPFfellows
.
1/6: Data journalist
@aleszubajak
and visual journalist
@Ramon_Padilla
of
@usatgraphics
have been awarded the 2022 Innovative Storytelling Award from the National Press Foundation. Congratulations!
It was one year ago today, January 6th, 2021,
@pbsnewshour
's
@LisaDNews
reported from inside the Capitol building. That day's reporting helped earn her the Dirksen award from
@NatPress
.
1/4: Congratulations to the 25 journalists selected for NPF’s Statehouse Reporting 2023 Fellowship! Fellows will gather in Madison, Wisconsin, Sept. 18-21 to examine a host of issues confronting state lawmakers and the country at large.
@HutzellRick
accepts Benjamin C. Bradlee Editor of the Year Award on behalf of five
@CapGazNews
staff slain last summer: “It is a difficult thing to stand here and accept an honor that, no matter how much I appreciate it, I would rather not have.”
#JournalismMatters
#NPFDinner
1/3: Congratulations to our 20 Data and Accountability Journalism fellows who will travel to
#WashingtonDC
next month! Special thanks to our program sponsor Evelyn Y. Davis Foundation.
1/5 Congratulations to Idrees Kahloon (
@imkahloon
) of
@TheEconomist
and Anna Wolfe (
@ayewolfe
) of
@MSTODAYnews
, the first winners of the National Press Foundation’s 2020 Poverty and Inequality Awards!
Learn more:
"We're seeing a lot more gatekeeping from these public officials to the media, and that's going to require us to get even better at being able to tell these stories without access," said
@IAStartingLine
political correspondent Ty Rushing (
@Rushthewriter
)
Congrats to our 2018
#NPFFood
fellows! These talented journalists will join us in Kansas City, Missouri next month to learn about what's next in food and agriculture:
NPF condemns the Philippine Court of Appeals' decision to uphold the conviction of Nobel laureate
@MariaRessa
and former
@rapplerdotcom
researcher Rey Santos Jr. on trumped-up cyber libel charges.
@ICFJ
#HoldTheLine
1/6:
@csmonitor
Congressional correspondent
@christacbryant
has been awarded the 2022 Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress from the National Press Foundation. Congratulations!
1/6: Good Morning America co-anchor
@RobinRoberts
has been awarded the 2022 Sol Taishoff Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism from the National Press Foundation. Congratulations
@GMA
@ABCNews
!
Congratulations to the
@washingtonpost
reporters, editors and designers behind “The Blast Effect,” winner of the 2023 Innovative Storytelling Award.
#NPFawards
Join
@NatPress
and
@RevDrBarber
in 1 HOUR for "Poverty and Inequality 2020," the first event in a 4-month series of briefings to help
#journalists
cover children and families in poverty. Learn from experts so you can produce data-driven, relevant stories:
1/3: Congrats to our Statehouse Reporting Fellows who'll come to Austin this month to learn from experts in disinformation, voting rights, campaign finance and more to get ready for 2022! Special thanks to our program sponsor
@Arnold_Ventures
.
1/4: Congratulations to the 25 international journalists selected for NPF’s 2023 Covering Rare Diseases Fellowship! The fellows will gather virtually Nov. 13-17 to learn from top experts in rare diseases, diagnostics, targeted testing & drug development.
Three Wall Street Journal reporters have won the Thomas L. Stokes Award for Best Energy and Environment Writing for three articles on “How PG&E Burned California.”
Congratulations to winners
@KatherineBlunt
@RussellGold
and Rebecca Smith! Details here:
Congrats to Exec. Editor
@deanbaquet
of
@nytimes
, winner of NPF's Bradlee Editor of the Year award. The prestigious award is given for imagination, professional skill, ethics and an ability to motivate staff.
#journalismmatters
#pressfreedom
1/4: NPF is excited to welcome 25 journalists to its International Trade Fellowship in Singapore July 23-26! The newest cohort of
#NPFfellows
includes reporters and editors from more than a dozen countries across Asia.
1/5:
@GlobeOpinion
cartoonist
@WardSutton
has won the 2022 Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoons from the National Press Foundation. Congratulations!
Help us celebrate NPF's 48th birthday by honoring our prestigious Paul Miller fellowship, thriving for 35 years! 🎉 Swipe through some
#throwback
photos of our talented fellows and consider making a tax-deductible donation for the fellowship.
#NPFturns48
Ask how instead of why someone came to a belief,
@moniguzman
of
@braverangels
told journalists: “Asking why can make people feel like you want them to justify themselves ... ask them to take you on a tour instead of putting them on a trial.”
“Defending transparency and press freedom – it’s not a partisan statement, and it shouldn’t be construed as one.” –
@johnmdonnelly
of
@CQRollCall
thanks lawmakers, government agencies and journalists for fighting for a transparent government.
#JournalismMatters
#NPFDinner
Congrats to the 16 journalists selected for the third & final Future of the American Child Fellowship. We're thrilled to meet them in Charlotte, N.C. January 21-24 for 4 days focused on covering economic challenges and mobility.
1/3: Congrats to the 20 journalists selected for NPF's Internet of Bodies fellowship: "Your Body, Their Data?" We're thrilled to welcome them to the
#NPFfellows
family and host them in Washington, D.C. Nov. 29-Dec. 1 to talk all things data privacy.
Thank you, Chantilly Jaggernauth
@chanjagg
, vice president, data visualization and training, Lovelytics
@LovelyticsData
, for demonstrating to
#NPFCovidCash
fellows how to use Tableau to analyze federal
#coronavirus
spending data.
1/4: Congratulations to the 15 journalists selected for the National Press Foundation’s “The Future of the American Child 2023 Fellowship.” They will travel to McAllen, TX Jan. 22-25 to study child poverty and well-being.
Car accident data is crucial for regulations on
#driverlesscars
, but many companies won't share that data.
#Nuro
promised to share their data.
@courtneyrozen
explains why it's tricky.
1/3: Congrats to the 20 journalists selected for our New Age for Aging Journalism Fellowship! We’re thrilled to bring them to DC in September for a three-day training covering the multigenerational workforce & federal aging policy in 2022 and beyond.
Congratulations to the 21 journalists selected for NPF’s America’s Long-Term Care Crisis Fellowship! Fellows will gather in Washington, D.C. Oct. 1-4 to examine long-standing challenges that family caregivers & long-term care workers face.