National Press Club gives VOA journalists its prestigious press award

In April 2020, Voice of America White House Correspondent Patsy Widakuswara was in the Rose Garden when a U.S. president called VOA reporting “disgusting.” Thursday evening, Widakuswara and three colleagues accepted a prestigious award for their coverage of an administration’s attack on VOA journalism.

The National Press Club’s 2021 Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism cited the VOA journalists’ “thoughtful and deliberately in-depth coverage of how the former U.S. Agency of Global Media CEO, Michael Pack, a President Trump appointee, attempted to dismantle the organization’s editorial independence."

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