He’s hilarious – but also makes sure his audiences are thinking as they laugh, my aim with this year’s dinner is to lift up the importance of a free and independent press to a functioning democracy, so I am thrilled to be able to feature a comedian who gets what journalism is all about.

Tamara Keith

Tamara Dawnell Keith (born September 25, 1979) is NPR White House correspondent and co-host, with Scott Detrow, of the NPR Politics Podcast, joining as a business reporter in 2009. She covered the earthquake in Haiti and hosted B-side Radio, a 72-episode public radio podcast, from 2001 until 2010. She regularly appears on the PBS NewsHour weekly segment "Politics Monday". As of 2021 Keith was on the board of the White House Correspondents' Association, of which she is also the president.Keith, in 2007, received first-place in the category "Outstanding Story, Radio" for "Overcrowded Prisons' Wastewater Poses Environmental Hazard (Mule Creek Prison)" on The California Report from the Society of Environmental Journalists in the sixth annual contest.

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