Fox NewsChief National Security Correspondent Jennifer Griffin was honored Wednesday evening at the annual Foreign Press Awards ceremony hosted by the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents.
Griffin received the 2024 Prize of Professional Excellence for her reporting on Abdul Wasi Safithe Afghan soldier who served alongside the US army in Afghanistan and, after the Taliban takeover, traveled through ten countries on three continents, only to be detained at the southern border.
Griffin’s reporting on Safi’s five-month detention led congressional leaders to call for his freedom. As a result, Safi was granted asylum last year.
Jennifer Griffin, Fox News’ chief national security correspondent, received the 2024 Prize of Professional Excellence from the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents. (Fox News Media)
In her acceptance speech, Griffin advocated supporting local journalism and emphasized that AI cannot replace reporters on the ground who risk their lives to tell stories about people in need around 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’ director of DC story development NuNu Japaridze. They were there to support Griffin, correspondent Lucas Tomlinson and DC field 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 serving alongside him as a foreign correspondent.”
Griffin dedicated the award to “all the foreign correspondents who are on the front lines telling these important stories.”
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Jennifer Griffin’s reporting, which spotlighted Afghan soldier Abdul Wasi Safi, helped him win asylum after he was detained 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 killing of Osama bin Laden, the chaotic exodus from Afghanistan to the ongoing Russia -Ukraine war.
