Trey Yingst Wins 2025 Prize of Excellence, Honors Frontline Reporters and Calls for Gaza Access

Trey Yingst Receives 2025 Prize of Excellence at Foreign Press Awards

Fox News Chief Foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst was presented with the Prize of Excellence at the 2025 Foreign Press Awards on Thursday evening in Washington, D.C. The ceremony, organized by the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents, took place at the National Press Club and celebrated frontline journalists for their courage and reporting from conflict zones.

Introduced by George Svigos, executive director of communications for GM Global Markets, Yingst was praised for "his courageous frontline reporting and exceptional commitment to documenting major global conflicts in real time."

Accepting the prize, Yingst reflected on the responsibilities of international reporting:

"To be a foreign correspondent is to be a witness. To be a clear voice in a world that is often marred by violence and misinformation. Our work and responsibility should not be taken lightly."

He publicly thanked the Murdoch family and senior Fox News leadership who attended the ceremony, including Suzanne Scott (CEO), Jay Wallace (President and Executive Editor), Greg Headen (Senior Vice President, News Coverage), Tom Lowell (Senior Executive Vice President), Lauren Petterson (FOX Nation President), Irena Briganti (Senior Executive Vice President, Corporate Communications), Kim Rosenberg (Executive Vice President, News Programming), and Thomas Ferraro (Foreign Desk Manager).

Yingst also paid tribute to his father, Gerald Yingst, noting that his father "believed in me when everyone else told me this wasn't possible." He recalled beginning at 19 with a camera bought on Amazon, a little-watched YouTube page and a press pass printed at a campus library.

Yingst has reported from multiple conflict zones, covering the Israel-Hamas war, Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the 2021 U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. A significant portion of his remarks recognized Palestinian journalists in Gaza, whom he described as "fearless and tenacious," and emphasized that many lack the ability to leave when reporting becomes too dangerous. He urged that international journalists be granted independent access to Gaza to report freely.

Describing journalism as a mission rather than a job, Yingst said: "To go to the places that others won't go and tell the stories that otherwise wouldn't be told." He cited recent reporting that included speaking with hostages released from Hamas captivity, meeting Syrian mothers searching for relatives lost at Sednaya prison, and interviewing President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Ukraine's eastern front.

"We must hold governments and militaries accountable for their actions. And we must continue to be a voice for the voiceless," Yingst concluded.

Other presenters and attendees included Chairwoman Nancy Prager-Kamel, Allison Bromley from the Knight Foundation, and Thanos Dimadis, executive director of the AFPC-USA.