What a great night to celebrate journalistic excellence and press freedom. Honored to be a part of the AFPC/USA and to champion the importance of the vital work done each day by foreign correspondents who work with determination and courage, often in harm’s way, to bring the truth and the story home to their nations. Congratulations to the winners and the stories they tell.

*NBC’s Andrea Mitchell surrounded by fellow winners and colleagues at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.. Photo courtesy AFPC/USA.*

The winners of the 2025 Foreign Press Awards were announced at this month’s celebration dinner of the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents in the USA: NBC’s Andrea Mitchell, CNN’s Jim Sciutto, The Wall Street Journal’s Yaroslav Trofimov, Fox’s Trey Yingst, CBS’s Weijia Jiang, Bloomberg’s Tim Stenovec, Financial Times’ Brooke Masters, ABC’s James Longman, and more. The honorees and scholarship winners were recognized Dec. 4 at the annual gala at the National Press Club – for advancing excellence in journalism and championing integrity, courage and leadership at a time when media are under fire both figuratively and literally.

The AFPC/USA Press Freedom Grant was awarded this year to the Al Jazeera Network, which lost 10 reporters and media workers in Gaza trying to cover the Palestinian conflict with Israel. The 10 were remembered with a moment of silence and posters of their images at an otherwise empty table.

Their sacrifice and those of other reporters lost around the world – in one of the most deadly and dangerous years for journalists globally – were stark reminders of journalism’s terrible costs and bedrock commitment to press freedom so essential in open societies. The AFPC/USA honors their courage and remembers their voices, silenced when going into harm’s way to bring the truth home.

Learn more on the AFPC-USA’s LinkedIn page.

– Storer Rowley