Two Club members to be inducted into D.C. journalism hall of fame

Two National Press Club members -- veteran White House correspondent April Ryan and former Club President Jonathan D. Salant -- will be inducted into the Society of Professional Journalists Washington, D.C. chapter's Journalism Hall of Fame on June 13.

They will join WJLA-TV Bureau Chief Sam Ford as honorees.

The event will be held at the Club with cocktails beginning at 6 p.m. and dinner at 7. The chapter also will award its Distinguished Service Award and its Dateline awards for local journalism at the dinner.

Ryan is senior White House correspondent and Washington bureau chief for TheGrio and a political analyst for MSNBC. She is the longest-serving Black woman covering the White House and covered urban issues there for a quarter-century. She is a winner of an NAACP Image Award and a Freedom of the Press Award from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

Salant served as Club president in 2006. He has been a Washington reporter for more than 35 years and currently works in D.C. as assistant managing editor, politics, for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Among his journalism awards is the Club's Washington Correspondence award for regional reporting. He currently is a member of the Standing Committee of Correspondents.

Tickets are $100 and go on sale April 20. For more information, contact dinner chair Amy Fickling at [email protected].