Event Coverage Highlight

The OPC’s 80th Annual Awards Dinner featured keynote remarks from Martin Baron, the executive editor of The Washington Post, who said that amid increasing attacks on the press that journalists and advocates of free expression around the must give “unwavering, unambiguous, forceful, principled support” to the world’s independent press. David Ignatius, an associate editor and columnist for The Washington Post, lit the Candle of Remembrance in honor of murdered Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi and more than 50 other journalists worldwide killed in connection with their work in 2018. Lester Holt, anchor of NBC Nightly News and Dateline NBC was the awards presenter.

Please scroll down and click on the photo tiles below to link directly to each of the award pages, where you can see videos of recipients’ speeches receiving this year’s 21 awards.

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Slideshow from the Annual Awards Dinner:

Maggie Steber, left, receives the President’s Award from Pancho Bernasconi. Photo: Steve Moore

Martin Baron, keynote speaker. Photo: Steve Moore

David Rohde. Photo: Steve Moore

David Ignatius lights the Candle of Remembrance. Photo: Steve Moore

Lester Holt, awards presenter. Photo: Steve Moore

Sarah Lubman, chair of the dinner committee. Photo: Steve Moore

Left to right: Mike Chase, Patrick Chappatte, and Leah Spiro.Photo: Steve Moore

Michael Serrill, left, and Trudy Rubin. Photo: Steve Moore

Left to right: Jon Sawyer, Patricia Kranz, Kem Sawyer.Photo: Steve Moore

Left to right: Maggie Steber, Pancho Bernasconi and Nina Berman. Photo: Steve Moore

Patricia Kranz, left, and Andrea Bergman. Photo: Steve Moore

Doug Jehl, left, and Paula Dwyer. Photo: Steve Moore

Jeffrey Stern, left, and Trudy Rubin. Photo: Steve Moore

Pancho Bernasconi, left, and OPC Executive Director Patricia Kranz. Photo: Steve Moore

David Andelman, left, and Han Tjan. Photo: Steve Moore

David Ignatius. Photo: Steve Moore

Left to right: Laura King, Betsy Kraft, Scott Kraft and Tracy Wilkinson. Photo: Steve Moore

Bronwyn Starr, left, and Brian Byrd. Photo: Steve Moore

Vivienne Walt, left, and Patricia Kranz. Photo: Steve Moore

Left to right: Minky Worden, Gordon Crovitz and Melissa Ng. Photo: Steve Moore

Click on the award images below to see individual award pages with video clips of each acceptance speech.

Photos: Steve Moore

The Hal Boyle Award	The Bob Considine Award	The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award	The Olivier Rebbot Award
Best Feature Photography Award		The David Kaplan Award	The Edward R. Murrow Award
The Peter Jennings Award	The Ed Cunningham Award	The Best Cartoon Award	The Morton Frank and Malcolm Forbes Award
The Cornelius Ryan Award	The Madeline Dane Ross Award	The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award	The Joe and Laurie Dine Award
The Whitman Bassow Award	The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award	The Kim Wall Award	The Roy Rowan Award
The Flora Lewis Award