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Join Telegram ChannelJennifer Griffin, Fox News' chief national security correspondent, was honored Wednesday evening at the annual Foreign Press Awards ceremony hosted by the Foreign Press Correspondents Association.
Griffin received the 2024 Professional Excellence Award for his reporting on Abdul Wasi Safi, the Afghan soldier who served alongside the U.S. military in Afghanistan and crossed ten countries on three continents after the Taliban took power , before being arrested at the southern border.
Griffin's media coverage of Safi's five months of detention led congressional leaders to advocate for his freedom. Safi was granted asylum last year.
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Jennifer Griffin, Fox News' chief national security correspondent, received the 2024 Professional Achievement Award from the Foreign Press Correspondents Association. (Fox News Media)
In his acceptance speech, Griffin made the case for supporting local journalism and insisted that AI cannot replace journalists on the ground who risk their lives to tell the stories of people in need at across the world.
Among those she thanked in her speech were FOX News Media President Jay Wallace, Fox News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton, and Fox News DC Story Development Director NuNu Japaridze. They were there to support Griffin as well as correspondent Lucas Tomlinson and DC producers Krista Garvin and Liz Friden.
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From left to right: Liz Friden, Lucas Tomlinson, Jay Wallace, Jennifer Griffin, Bryan Boughton, NuNu Japaridze, Krista Garvin (Fox News Media)
She also thanked her husband, NPR national security correspondent Greg Myre, who also attended the ceremony, noting that “”her happiest days were as a foreign correspondent” at her side.
Griffin dedicated the award to “all the foreign correspondents who are on the front lines of telling these important stories.”
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Jennifer Griffin's report spotlighting Afghan soldier Abdul Wasi Safi helped him gain asylum after he was arrested at the southern border while fleeing Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. (Sami-ullah Safi)
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Griffin joined Fox News Channel in 1999 and has covered some of the biggest stories overseas, from the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Benghazi terrorist attack, the assassination of Osama bin Laden, of the ongoing chaotic exit from Afghanistan to Russia-Ukraine. war.