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The Guardian US’ Congressional Reporter, Hugo Lowell, Wins at the National Press Club Journalism Awards

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The Guardian US’ Congressional reporter, Hugo Lowell, has won the National Press Club’s (NPC) Sandy Hume Memorial Award for Excellence in Political Journalism for his submission, ‘Inside how Trump and aides sought to stop Biden’s certification on January 6’. The winners were announced by the NPC on August 11; the awards ceremony will be held today (Wednesday 31 August).

Now in its 49th year, the National Press Club Journalism Awards celebrate the best in broadcast and print stories, recognizing and honoring professional journalists who produced outstanding work in 2021. Award categories cover a wide range of topics and writing styles including politics, breaking news, consumer news, foreign coverage, use of print, online, broadcast news techniques and news photos.

Lowell’s winning submission and reporting, which included the piece ‘Trump called aides hours before Capitol riot to discuss how to stop Biden victory’ extracted new details that would shape the congressional investigation into the Capitol attack and offered key insights of how intimately former President Donald Trump was involved in the effort to overturn the election.

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