Edgar A. Poe Award

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The Edgar A. Poe Memorial Award was a prize for journalistic excellence that was awarded by the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA). The prize, which paid $2,500 in 2011, was funded by the New Orleans Times-Picayune and Newhouse Newspapers in honor of the distinguished correspondent Edgar Allen Poe (1906–1998), [1] a former WHCA president unrelated to the American fiction writer of the nearly identical name. [2] [3]

The award, which honored excellence in news coverage of subjects and events of significant national or regional importance to the American people, [4] was presented from 1990 to 2019 at the annual dinner of the WHCA [1] (when it was discontinued in place of two new awards). [5]

A list of Edgar A. Poe Memorial Award recipients can be found in the WHCA article.

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  1. 1 2 Site Staff (August 1, 2010). "Julia Street with Poydras the Parrot". New Orleans Magazine. In 1989, the Times-Picayune and Newshouse Newspapers established the Edgar A. Poe Award for journalistic excellence. Named in honor of the Picayune's longtime Washington correspondent, who died in 1998 at the age of 92. The award is presented at the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner.
  2. "REPORTER EDGAR ALLEN POE DIES". The Washington Post . Aug 17, 1998.
  3. Tognotti, Chris (April 25, 2015). "What's With The Edgar A. Poe Award At The WHCD?". Bustle .
  4. "THE EDGAR A. POE MEMORIAL AWARD". White House Correspondents' Association. Archived from the original on June 21, 2008.
  5. "WHCA ANNOUNCES KATHARINE GRAHAM AWARD FOR COURAGE AND ACCOUNTABILITY". White House Correspondents' Association. 2019.