Maureen Groppe, an award-winning journalist whose career has spanned local reporting, coverage of Congress and presidential politics, is a White House correspondent at USA TODAY. A proud Hoosier, Maureen reported for Gannett’s Indianapolis Star newspaper for 18 years before moving to USA TODAY in 2018. She has covered Mike Pence extensively during his congressional, gubernatorial and vice presidential career. Maureen has been honored with the National Press Foundation’s Feddie Award for Reporting on Federal Rules and Local Impact. She has also won several regional reporting awards as well as state press association awards. She has served as chairwoman of the National Press Club board of governors and of the Congressional Standing Committee of Correspondents. In 1992, she was the Poynter Fellow for the American Political Science Association’s Congressional Fellowship Program, an honor given to that year’s top journalist in the program.