White House Correspondents Association

The association presents achievement awards to reward and encourage excellence in journalism. The awards recognize significant accomplishments in presidential news coverage over a year, presidential news coverage under deadline pressure, visual journalism, and work of significant national or regional importance.the 2024 awards lauded coverage of president biden, the oct 7 terrorist attack on israel and the impacts of the ar-15. They also honored the journalists rodney batten and edward lewis.

The association provides a forum for coverage-related issues affecting regular white house correspondents, including access to the president, the ability to question the white house staff on a daily basis at the white house briefing room, and work to help the press cover the president on trips outside the white house, as well as outside the city and the country.the association also sponsored a panel of journalists with scholarship students, and a news briefing for students with the white house press secretary.