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White House Correspondents’ Dinner Award Winners: Josh Dawsey & Kaitlan Collins

April 13, 2026 By haddadmedia

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two of the best political reporters will be presented with awards at the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner on April 25 at the Washington Hilton — Josh Dawsey (WSJ) & Kaitlan Collins (CNN). “Groundbreaking reporting about the first year of President Trump’s second term” is the theme of the winners of this year’s journalism awards from the White House Correspondents’ Association.

Josh Dawsey with Tammy Haddad at the 2025 WHC Garden Brunch, photo by WHC Insider.

Also at the dinner, two independently administered awards will be presented, one for reporting that revealed Medicaid fraud in Minnesota; the other a series of stories by the New York Times.

Kaitlan Collins poses with a replica of The White House, photo by WHC Insider.

Here is the full list of the WHCA award winners. 

Politico wrote it all up this way: “AND THE AWARD GOES TO: The White House Correspondents’ Association announced its 2026 award winners, with the prize for overall excellence in White House coverage going to WSJ’s Josh Dawsey. Other winners include AP’s Aamer Madhani and Zeke Miller, CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, Getty Images’ Andrew Harnik, WSJ’s Khadeerza Safdar, Joe Palazzolo, Sadie Gurman, Annie Linskey, Alex Leary, Rebecca Ballhaus and C. Ryan Barber, KARE-11 and NYT’s Tyler Pager.”

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