YAMICHE ALCINDOR (Confirmed)

Yamiche Léone Alcindor is an American journalist who is the host of Washington Week, White House correspondent for the PBS NewsHour, and a political contributor to NBC News and MSNBC. In the past, she has worked as a reporter for USA Today and The New York Times. Alcindor writes mainly about politics and social issues.  She aspired to become a civil rights journalist, and was inspired by African-American journalist Gwen Ifill and contemporary newspaper reporting surrounding Emmett Till. In 2015, Alcindor received a master’s degree in “broadcast news and documentary filmmaking” at New York University.  Alcindor received the 2020 Aldo Beckman Award for Overall Excellence in White House Coverage from the White House Correspondents’ Association.  In May 2021, Alcindor was named the new moderator of Washington Week.

PHILLIP RUCKER 

Philip Rucker is the White House Bureau Chief for The Washington Post. He previously has covered Congress, the Obama White House, and the 2012 and 2016 presidential campaigns. Rucker also is co-author of “A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America,” a No. 1 New York Times bestseller, and is a Political Analyst for NBC News and MSNBC. He joined The Post in 2005 as a local news reporter.  Honors & Awards:

• Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, 2018, for coverage of Russian interference
• George Polk Award, 2018, for coverage of Russian interference
• Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize, 2018, for distinguished reporting on the presidency
• Sigma Delta Chi Award, 2018, for coverage of Russian interference

DAN BALZ 

Dan Balz is chief correspondent at The Washington Post. He joined The Post in 1978 and has been involved in political coverage as a reporter or editor throughout his career. Before coming to The Post, he worked at National Journal magazine as a reporter and an editor and at the Philadelphia Inquirer. He is the author of several books, including two bestsellers. He was born in Freeport, Ill., graduated from the University of Illinois and served in the U.S. Army. He is married and has one adult son. He is a regular panelist on PBS’s “Washington Week” and is a frequent guest on the Sunday morning talk shows and other public affairs programs.  Honors & Awards:

• John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism, 2017
• Robin Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting, 2015
• White House Correspondents Association’s Merriman Smith Award for deadline writing, 2011
• Gerald R. Ford Award for Coverage of the Presidency (shared), 2002
• American Political Science Association’s Carey McWilliams Award, 1999
• Professional Affiliations: National Press Club. Gridiron Club. American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Books by Dan Balz:

• Storming the Gates: Protest Politics and the Republican Revival
• The Battle for America 2008: The Story of an Extraordinary Election
• Collision 2012: Obama vs. Romney and the Future of Elections in America”

ASHLEY PARKER 

Ashley Parker is a White House reporter for The Washington Post. She joined The Post in 2017, after 11 years at the New York Times, where she covered the 2012 and 2016 presidential campaigns and Congress, among other things. Parker is also an on-air contributor to NBC News and MSNBC.

Honors & Awards:

• Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, 2018, for coverage of Russian interference

MICHAEL C. BENDER 

Michael C. Bender covers the White House for The Wall Street Journal. Before joining the Journal in 2016, he was a senior writer for Bloomberg Politics in Washington. Mr. Bender spent the first 15 years of his career at newspapers in Ohio, Colorado and Florida. A Cleveland native and graduate of The Ohio State University, he lives in Washington with his wife and two daughters.