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Meet the Winners of the 2026 Washington Women in Journalism Awards

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By Damare Baker
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Hall of Fame Judy Woodruff PBS Photograph by Lauren Bulbin. Judy Woodruff has been a fixture of American television sets since the early 1980s–first as a White House correspondent for NBC News, then as PBS News Hour’s chief Washington correspondent (later a Frontline presenter), and eventually as anchor of CNN’s Inside Politics. Though she stepped away from anchoring in 2022 after more than a decade back at the News Hour, she continues to report for PBS.
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Patrice Willoughby on the Moving Portrait of Her Ancestor

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By Damare Baker
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For Patrice Willoughby, the NAACP’s policy and legislative-affairs chief, a picture is worth more than a thousand words. The picture in question? A portrait of her great-great-great-grandmother Jeannette Wilkins, taken before the Emancipation Proclamation, likely around the mid-1850s. It’s a simple photograph of Jeannette in a silk dress and bonnet, her left hand resting on a table to show her wedding ring.
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The NAACP’s Patrice Willoughby on a Moving Portrait of Her Ancestor

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By Damare Baker
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Damare Baker January 9, 2026 at 4:00 AM For Patrice Willoughby, the NAACP’s policy and legislative-affairs chief, a picture is worth more than a thousand words. The picture in question? A portrait of her great-great-great-grandmother Jeannette Wilkins, taken before the Emancipation Proclamation, likely around the mid-1850s. It’s a simple photograph of Jeannette in a silk dress and bonnet, her left hand resting on a table to show her wedding ring.
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