PRESS ROOM: April Ryan joins Black Press USA as Washington bureau chief and senior White House correspondent

By Jason RobertsNNPA Newswire

The Black Press is the trusted information and knowledge supply for hundreds of thousands of Individuals, and it’s bringing on information trailblazer, April Ryan. That is April Ryan’s sixth presidency having lined 5 presidents as a White Home correspondent and bureau chief.

“April Ryan has exemplified the most effective of excellent journalism for many years on the White Home for information corporations throughout the nation and world. We’re so proud to announce that April Ryan will now be the Washington Bureau Chief and Senior White Home Correspondent for Black Press USA,” emphasised Dr. Benjamin F, Chavis, Jr.,president and CEO of the NNPA. “Because the Nationwide Newspaper Publishers Affiliation (NNPA) celebrates 2025 the 198th yr of the Black Press of America, we acknowledge the transformative up to date profit to the amplification of the strategic significance of the Black Press that will probably be rendered by the braveness {and professional} effectiveness of April Ryan. April is the longest serving, Black tenured White Home correspondent within the historical past of america.”

“I’m going house to make historical past because the Washington Bureau Chief and Senior White Home Correspondent for Black Press USA. That is the house of historical past makers who had been the primary Black White Home correspondents, Harry McAlpin, Ethel Payne, and Alice Dunnigan,” stated Ryan. “January 13, 2025, marked my twenty eighth yr as a White Home Correspondent and I’m thrilled to proceed my journey at honoring the esteemed legacy of those iconic Black journalists.”