White House Correspondents' Association

Scholarships for university students in the field of journalism. The Association provided or sponsored scholarships to a diverse group of students to help them study journalism and prepare for a career as journalists. It also arranged for members of the White House press corps to serve as one-on-one mentors for the year. The whca provides or sponsors scholarships in partnership with: american university, Arizona state university, columbia university, the george Washington university, hampton univeristy, howard university, northwestern university, Ohio university, uc-berkeley, the university of Kansas, the university of Missouri, the university of Maryland and the university of Tennessee. It also co-sponsored scholarships with the asian american jounalists Association, the national Association of hispanic journalists and the White House historical Association.

The Association provides a forum for coverage-related issues affecting regular White House correspondents, including access to the president, the ability to question the White House staff on a daily basis at the White House briefing room, and work to help the press cover the president on trips outside the White House, as well as outside the city and the country.the Association also sponsored a panel discussion at the john f. kennedy presidential library, a panel of journalists with scholarship students, and a news briefing for students with the White House press secretary.

The Association presents achievement awards to reward and encourage excellence in journalism. The awards recognize significant accomplishments in presidential news coverage over a year, presidential news coverage under deadline pressure, visual journalism, and work of significant national or regional importance.the 2023 awards lauded coverage of president biden, a White House solar energy initiative, ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky's trip to the White House, and news of the draft supreme court opinion reversing abortion rights. They also honored the late journalists gwen ifill and bill plante.

To promote excellence in journalism and educate the public about the field of journalism and the process of reporting about the White House.