International Center for Journalists 25th Anniversary Awards Dinner

The International Center for Journalists held their 25th anniversary awards dinner Thursday at the Ronald Reagan Building.

Awards were presented to The New Yorker's Seymour Hersh, Chinese journalist Cao Junwu and Congolese journalist Chouchou Namegabe Nabintu.

The evening was emceed by ABC's Washington Bureau Chief George Stephanopoulos, who likely felt a pang of deja vu at the event: Just the night before, Stephanopoulos presided over another 25th anniversary dinner, for the Washington Lab School, with co-emcee and wife Ali Wentworth.

The dinner was a fundraiser for ICFJ, which helps train reporters and media managers around the world.

Among the guests: ABC President David Westin, David Rhode of The New York Times, Vanity Fair's Maureen Orth, Newsweek's Rick Stone, The Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart, and senior Vogue editor Shirley Lord Rosenthal.

— Report by Christina Wilkie and photographs by James R. Brantley

Marcy McGinnis, Patrick Butler, Jacueline Barnathan and awardee Chouchou Namegabe

Greg Reilly and Ross Reiy

Seymour Topping, Michael Golden, Vice-chair New York Times Company

Christie Stone

Ali Wentworth and George Stephanopoulos search the crowd for bids during the live auction

Walter Pincus

Michael Riley, John Huey and Karen Tumulty

Rick Stone and Christie Stone

Adam Liptak, Jennifer Bitman, Michael Golden

ICFJ President Joyce Barnethan

ICFJ Chair Jim Hoge laughs it up with Rick Kirkland

Marcia Carter, Robin Hill

Center for the Study of the President head David Abshire and Nan Coughlin

Jacob Heilbrunn, Mark Plotkin, Wolfgang Pordzik

Bill Seimsring, David Anable, Board member Jack Hamilton

Peter Copeland

Michael Golden, awardee/former terrorist hostage David Rhohde,  Wafe Abdul Waheed, Dick Stevenson and Dristie Mulvihill

George Stephanopoulos comes forward for a surprise award

Adam Sharp, Paul Jackson