Proceeds from this year’s event go to feeding the hungry and funding journalism scholarships.
The
correspondents’ association donated $23,000 — some of it saved by
skipping formal dessert at the dinner — and raised another $75,000 from
several major media organizations for two food banks, So Others Might Eat and Share Our Strength.
Funding for the journalism scholarships remained at $132,000 a year, an expanded level set in 2008.
Michelle hands them out:
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the rest of their class is going into public relations and therefore not eligible.