Uploaded December 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
Clarissa Ward, CNN's multi-award winning chief international correspondent based in London, received the National Press Club’s most esteemed prize, the Fourth Estate Award, at a gala in her honor on Dec. 7, 2022.
Also honored were the winners of the John Aubuchon Press Freedom Awards, Rana Ayyub and Josh Renaud. Ayyub is an investigative journalist living in India and a Washington Post Global Opinions contributor. Her journalistic work and criticism of the Indian government has been met with an assault on her rights and freedom of expression. Renaud is a Missouri reporter who designs interactive journalism projects for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He was threatened by the Missouri governor with criminal charges for uncovering a security flaw in a state database.
PBS Frontline was also recognized as the 2022 Neil and Susan Sheehan Award for Investigative Journalism honoree.
Clarissa Ward, CNN's multi-award winning chief international correspondent based in London, received the National Press Club’s most esteemed prize, the Fourth Estate Award, at a gala in her honor on Dec. 7, 2022.
Also honored were the winners of the John Aubuchon Press Freedom Awards, Rana Ayyub and Josh Renaud. Ayyub is an investigative journalist living in India and a Washington Post Global Opinions contributor. Her journalistic work and criticism of the Indian government has been met with an assault on her rights and freedom of expression. Renaud is a Missouri reporter who designs interactive journalism projects for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He was threatened by the Missouri governor with criminal charges for uncovering a security flaw in a state database.
PBS Frontline was also recognized as the 2022 Neil and Susan Sheehan Award for Investigative Journalism honoree.
