TELEVISED COVERAGE: MAY 1 2010
C-SPAN AND MSNBC will televise this year’s dinner. Check local listings for exact time in your region.

C-Span coverage begins at 8pm Eastern, and will include the LIVE coverage in its entirety of the pre-dinner program, guest arrival from the red carpet area, and LIVE coverage of the program beginning at 9:40.

2010 WHCA DINNER

Leno to Headline White House Press and Scholarship Dinner

Contact: Julie Whiston
Executive Director
WHCA
202-266-7453

(Jan. 22, 2010) — Seventeen Washington, D.C. students will receive $132,000 in college scholarships from the White House Correspondents’ Association to pursue careers in journalism.

The winners will be introduced at the association’s May 1 fundraising dinner, where entertainer Jay Leno will be a featured speaker.

And for the first time in its 96-year history, the association is taking action to reduce the carbon impact of its annual black-tie gala; these actions include using as much as possible renewable energy for the event, paper products, supplies and services that reduce the threat of global warming, deforestation, toxic wastes, hazardous chemicals and species extinction.

“This will be the most eco-friendly dinner ever hosted by the association,” said Edwin Chen, the group’s president and a Bloomberg News White House correspondent.

“And we encourage our members and guests to join in that effort, such as by car-pooling, using hybrid vehicles and, for long-distance travelers to Washington, buying carbon-offsets,” Chen said.

The association also will announce at the dinner, to be held at the Washington Hilton Hotel, this year’s winners of the Edgar A. Poe, the Merriman Smith and the Aldo Beckman awards, three of journalism’s most prestigious prizes.

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