AWARDS CEREMONY, 5:30 P.M. EST FOLLOWING THE AWARDS CEREMONY Sol Taishoff Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism: Audie Cornish, National Public Radio Panel discussion on the state of journalism today: George Will, Audie Cornish and Peter Bhatia with moderator Dana Bash of CNN. Presented by Adam Sharp, President and CEO of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Breakout sessions, 6:20 p.m.: Innovative Storytelling Award: Jonah Kessel and Hiroko Tabuchi, The New York Times · Minneapolis Star Tribune cartoonist Steve Sack, joined by last year’s Berryman winner, Presented by Heather Dahl, CEO, Indicio.tech RJ Matson. Honorable mention winner Ruben Bolling will join. PROGRAM TONIGHT’S Clifford K. & James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoons: Steve Sack, Minneapolis Star Tribune · Time magazine’s Molly Ball, interviewed about her coverage of House Speaker Nancy Presented by Kevin Goldberg, Vice President, Legal, Digital Media Association Pelosi by Terence Samuel, managing editor of NPR. Honorable mention winner Chris Marquette of CQ Roll Call will speak about his work covering the Capitol Police. Benjamin C. Bradlee Editor of the Year Award: Peter Bhatia, Detroit Free Press · USA Today’s Brett Murphy and Letitia Stein will speak about the failures and future of Presented by Susan Swain, Co-President and CEO, C-SPAN the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, moderated by Elisabeth Rosenthal, editor- in-chief of Kaiser Health News. Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress: Molly Ball, Time · The Washington Post’s David J. Lynch, Josh Dawsey, Jeff Stein and Carol Leonnig will Presented by Cissy Baker, Granddaughter of Senator Dirksen talk trade, moderated by Mark Hamrick of Bankrate.com. Hinrich Foundation Award for Distinguished Reporting on Trade: David J. Lynch, Carol Leonnig, Josh · The New York Times’ Jonah Kessel and Hiroko Tabuchi, speaking on the use of Dawsey, Jeff Stein, The Washington Post technology for innovative storytelling, moderated by Heather Dahl, CEO of Indicio.tech. Presented by Merle A. Hinrich, Founder and Chairman, Hinrich Foundation EXTRAS ON HOPIN Feddie Reporting Award: Letitia Stein and Brett Murphy, USA Today Please visit these other attractions on other stages by clicking on the gray icons to the left Presented by Kathy Gest, Former NPF Board Chair and Current Board Member of your screen: Video: Full remarks by George Will W.M. Kiplinger Distinguished Contributions to Journalism Award: George Will Presented by Knight Kiplinger, Emeritus Editor, Kiplinger Publications Video: Historic footage of Sen. Everett McKinley Dirksen on the British storming of the Capitol in 1814 Chairman’s Citation: Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Video: NPF’s Paul Miller Fellowship Program Presented by Donna Leinwand Leger, NPF Board Chair Sponsor booths: Bayer U.S., Hinrich Foundation, American Honda Motor Co. Inc., AARP, UnitedHealth Group, Toyota, The Media Institute 3 3 CO-CHAIRS Liz Sidoti Amos Snead Abernathy MacGregor Adfero MEMBERS FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE Marie Cocco Raymond F. Kerins Jr. Sally Squires Blue Cross and Blue Bayer U.S. Independent Shield Association Journalist Lauren Culbertson Ed Lewis Susan Swain Twitter Toyota C-SPAN Tara DiJulio Lauren Pratapas Chris Thorne GE CNN Independent Public Affairs Kathy Gest Dan Roth John Walcott Former Board Chair, NPF Beer Institute Georgetown University Kevin M. Goldberg Jeffrey Smith Bill Walsh Digital Media Association American Honda Motor Co. Inc. AARP Leonard Greenberger Rob Stoddard AKCG NCTA NPF thanks Berryman Award winner Steve Sack for the cartoon of the 2020 NPF thanks the fundraising committee for its hard work this year. newsboy on the cover. Here is the original NPF newsboy. The money raised tonight will help NPF make good journalists better. 5 5 BOARD OF DIRECTORSBOARD | BENEFACTORS NPF BOARD OF DIRECTORS BENEFACTORS CHAIR Donna Leinwand Leger Jeffrey Birnbaum Terence Samuel DC Media Strategies BGR Public Relations NPR TREASURER Jon Sawyer Catalina Camia Charles Self Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting CQ Roll Call 227 International Lawrence B. Willard M. Kiplinger, Evelyn Y. Davis was David Swit was a Taishoff was the the founder a financial investor highly regarded and SECRETARY visionary publisher of Kiplinger, a and shareholder innovative publisher Amos Snead Peter Cherukuri Adam Sharp of Broadcasting & publishing company, advocate who of newsletters for Adfero Altice News National Academy Cable magazine and staunchly supported supported NPF’s businesses and of Television Arts & a long-time member the right of reporters style of fact-based corporations. His EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Sciences of the NPF board. His to exercise their teaching and legacy enables us MEMBERS generosity enables us independent evidence-based to sponsor briefings Heather Dahl Susan Swain to reach hundreds of judgment on political reporting. In 2014, on business and Indicio.tech C-SPAN Jim Brady digital and broadcast and economic she provided a financial issues in Spirited Media journalists annually. affairs. The award generous grant to Washington, D.C. in his name was establish a state-of- Tom Davidson Robyn Tomlin established at NPF in the-art studio, which Kevin M. Goldberg Gannett Product McClatchy Digital Media Association 2002. is named in her honor. Tom Rosenstiel Rafael Lorente Julie Triolo American Press Institute Philip Merrill College of WarnerMedia Journalism, University of The National Press Foundation has benefited IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR Maryland Kathy Gest John Walcott over the years from the generosity of donors who Public Affairs Consultant Sudeep Reddy Georgetown University wanted to support in perpetuity our educational Politico activities. We are proud to honor them here. 7 CHAMPIONS OF JOURNALISM DEFENDERS OF MEDIA FREEDOM OUR SPONSORS KIPLINGER FAMILY FOUNDATION Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation 9 Christopher Eisgruber Clark Hoyt Sandy Johnson and Chuck Raacsch FRIENDS OF NPF FRIENDS OF NPF OUR SPONSORS INDIVIDUAL SUPPORTERS Christopher Eisgruber Ann McFeatters Katherine Gorman Clark Hoyt Andrew Gabron Jeff MacGregor Sandy Johnson and Chuck Raasch Charles Lewis Bill Sternberg Andrew Alexander Julie Triolo Thank you to all of those who donated in honor of the late Wanda D. Moebius, and to Johnson & Johnson for generously matching those employee donations. 11 Sanjay Gupta, M.D. The Chairman’s Citation is awarded at the sole discretion of the NPF Board Chair to recognize individuals whose accomplishments fall outside the traditional categories of excellence. CHAIRMAN’S CITATION CHAIRMAN’S PAST WINNERS 2019 Charles Sennott and Steven Waldman, 2007 Mike Weisskopf, Time Report for America 2006 The Journalists of the Gulf Coast Dr. Sanjay Gupta is the multiple Emmy®-award winning chief medical correspondent for CNN. Gupta, a 2018 Elisabeth Bumiller, The New York Times practicing neurosurgeon, plays an integral role in CNN’s reporting on health and medical news for all of CNN’s 2005 Albert E. Fitzpatrick, Akron Beacon Journal shows domestically and internationally, and regularly contributes to CNN.com. 2017 Sally Jenkins, The Washington Post 2004 Anthony Marro, Newsday 2016 Steve Buttry, Louisiana State University Over the last few years, Gupta has increasingly focused on long-form reporting. He is the host of the CNN Original Series “Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta,” which follows Gupta’s travels around the world in search 2015 Nigel Jaquiss, Willamette Week 2003 Robert G. McGruder, Detroit Free Press of the secret to living longer, healthier and happier. Gupta also stars in the HBO Original Documentary “One Nation Under Stress,” which examines why life expectancy is declining in the United States. His enterprise 2014 Brian Krebs, krebsonsecurity 2002 The New York Times reporting on medical marijuana has led to five documentary films, “Weed,” which were awarded the Alfred I. 2001 Otis Chandler, Los Angeles Times duPont-Columbia University Award. 2012 Anthony Shadid, The New York Times 2011 Albert R. Hunt, Bloomberg News 2000 Walker Lundy, St. Paul Pioneer Press In addition to his work for CNN, Gupta is an associate professor of neurosurgery at Emory University Hospital and associate chief of neurosurgery at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. He serves as a diplomate of the 2010 Colbert I. King, The Washington Post 1998 Michael Bloomberg, Bloomberg American Board of Neurosurgery. And in 2019, Gupta was elected to the National Academy of Medicine, considered one of the highest honors in the medical field. 2009 Austin H. Kiplinger, The Kiplinger Letter 1996 Joe L. Allbritton, Allbritton Communications 2008 Peter S. Prichard, The Newseum “Sanjay Gupta’s ability to translate the complexity, nuance and art of medicine to make it understandable for a broad audience has made him the nation’s doctor.” - National Press Foundation Chair Donna Leinwand Leger. 13 13 The Innovative Storytelling Award recognizes digital journalism of the STORYTELLING AWARD INNOVATIVE Jonah Kessel highest quality that re-invents the way stories are told to present a Hiroko Tabuchi compelling audience experience. Jonah M. Kessel is a visual journalist at The New York Times, based in New York. From 2011 to 2016, he covered Asia for the video desk of The Times, working out of the Beijing and Hong Kong bureaus. Mr. Kessel’s video journalism is a hybrid of explanatory and investigative short form documentary and other innovative forms of visual journalism. He has reported on the ground from over 25 countries for the Times. He currently leads The Times’s cinematography efforts, managing strategy of aesthetic and technology as well as a team of Times video journalists specializing in camera technologies. Hiroko Tabuchi is a climate reporter for The New York Times, based in New York. She was previously a reporter See their award-winning work. in the paper’s Tokyo bureau, where she led the coverage of the 2011 nuclear disaster in Japan. In 2013, she was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for an examination of the business practices of Apple and other global manufacturing giants. Before joining the Times in 2008, she reported for The Wall Street Journal and The Associated Press, both from Tokyo.