 The newsroom announcement that day said she was "coming off a huge triumph" running the NSA coverage and that she would return to her role as deputy national editor at the end of the school year.In 2002, she won the White House Correspondents' Association Aldo Beckman Award for her coverage of President George W. Bush’s first year in office.The "Salon.com" columnist Glenn Greenwald has claimed that Kornblut reports Republican Party sloganeering as fact.