Edgar A. Poe Award
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The Edgar A. Poe Memorial Award is a prize for journalistic excellence that is awarded by the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA). The prize, which paid $2500 in 2011, is funded by the New Orleans Times-Picayune
in honor of its distinguished correspondent Edgar Allan Poe. Mr. Poe (1906–1998) is a former WHCA president, and is not related to the American fiction writer of the same name.
The Edgar A. Poe Award is presented at the annual dinner of the WHCA. The award honors excellence in news coverage of subjects and events of significant national or regional importance to the American people. A list of recipients can be found in the article on the WHCA
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New Orleans Times-Picayune
The Times-Picayune is a daily newspaper published in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.-History:Established as The Picayune in 1837 by Francis Lumsden and George Wilkins Kendall, the paper's initial price was one picayune—a Spanish coin equivalent to 6¼¢ .Under Eliza Jane Nicholson, who inherited the...
in honor of its distinguished correspondent Edgar Allan Poe. Mr. Poe (1906–1998) is a former WHCA president, and is not related to the American fiction writer of the same name.
The Edgar A. Poe Award is presented at the annual dinner of the WHCA. The award honors excellence in news coverage of subjects and events of significant national or regional importance to the American people. A list of recipients can be found in the article on the WHCA
White House Correspondents' Association
The White House Correspondents' Association is an organization of journalists who cover the White House and the President of the United States. The WHCA was founded in 1914 by journalists in response to an unfounded rumor that a Congressional committee would select which journalists could attend...
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