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The Correspondents' Dinner
Tonight, President Biden will appear for the dinner for the second time in his presidency.
He is expected to speak about the importance of press freedom and the troubling detentions of journalists around the world.
Then, a president who is rarely around members of the press in informal settings is likely to give a speech of roughly 10 to 20 minutes containing salty asides about his coverage and actually-pretty-serviceable jokes about journalists and their peculiarities, as he did last year.
Roy Wood Jr., a comedian and a correspondent for “The Daily Show,” will host the event.
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The president also paid tribute to two captive journalists, freelancer Austin Tice and the Wall Street Journal’s Evan Gershkovich.
Tice has been held captive in Syria for nearly 11 years. Gershkovich was arrested last month and held by Russian authorities on spying charges — the first American journalist to be held captive in Russia since the Cold War. “I’m working like hell to get them home,” he said.
And Biden acknowledged the presence of WNBA star Brittney Griner, who was released by Russian officials in December after 10 months of captivity in a prisoner exchange negotiated by his administration.
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