Students from the Newhouse and Maxwell schools pose with North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper after the Toner Prizes celebration. (Photo by Scott Robinson)
The Newhouse School awarded the 2024 Toner Prizes for Excellence in Political Reporting at a March 25 awards dinner, held at the Schuyler at the Hamilton Hotel in Washington, D.C.
The Washington Post won the prize for national political reporting, while The Philadelphia Inquirer won for local political reporting. THE CITY, an independent nonprofit newsroom that covers New York City, took an honorable mention for local political reporting. Finalists were announced earlier in March.
Established in 2009, the Toner Prizes recognize and reinforce quality, fact-based political reporting—work that illuminates the electoral process, reveals the politics of policy and engages the public in democracy. The awards, along with the Robin Toner Program in Political Reporting at the Newhouse School, are named after Robin Toner ’76, the first woman to serve as national political correspondent of The New York Times.
Photos taken by Scott Robinson unless otherwise noted.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, keynote speakerNPR White House Correspondent Asma Khalid, master of ceremonies
Syracuse University Provost Gretchen Ritter speaks with two Newhouse students in a group that includes Dean Mark Lodato.
Workers prepare the Schuyler ballroom at the Hamilton Hotel before the event. (By Genaro C. Armas)Newhouse School Dean Mark Lodato
Peter Gosselin, the husband of Robin Toner, speaks at the event that honors his late wife.
Cecile Richards, former president of Planned Parenthood, spoke as a guest of Peter Gosselin.
Reporters Greg Jaffe (left) and Patrick Marley of The Washington Post, winners of the Toner Prize for national political reporting, with Margaret Talev, Kramer Director of the Syracuse University Institute for Democracy, Journalism and Citizenship.
Maxwell Dean David Van Slyke (left) speaks with Bjørn Berge, Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe.
Staff from The Philadelphia Inquirer, who won the Toner Prize for local political reporting, gather before the awards ceremony. From left: Deputy political editor Laura McCrystal, and reporters Julia Terruso ’11, Sean Walsh, Anna Orso and Aseem Shukla.
From left: CNN anchor Boris Sanchez ’09, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and Beverly Kirk, director of the Newhouse DC program.
April Xu, the Chinese Community Correspondent at Documented, speaks after THE CITY accepted an honorable mention for local political reporting, while reporters Bianca Pallaro (center) and Katie Honan look on. Xu was a reporter on THE CITY’s honorable mention piece.McCrystal (left) and Terruso (right) look at Orso’s phone during the cocktail hour before the ceremony.
