Tapper Wins Deadline Pressure Award

For the second consecutive year, the White House Correspondent’s Association has chosen ABC News Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper as the winner  of the Merriman Smith Award for Excellence in Presidential Coverage Under Deadline Pressure.

He won for a story he reported on May 20, 2010 that revealed that Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair was about to be asked by the President to resign.  Tapper first broke the news on his “Political Punch” blog on ABCNews.com

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