FROM: Eric Breindel Foundation
              1211 Avenue of the Americas

              Rubenstein Associates, Inc. - Public Relations
              Contact: Germaine Febles (212) 843-8031
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                                                                                                                                                                            FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

BREINDEL AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM
GIVEN TO BRET STEPHENS, “GLOBAL VIEW” COLUMNIST
AND EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER AT THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

June 4, 2008 (New York, NY) – The Eric Breindel Foundation presented the 10th Annual Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Journalism to Bret Stephens, “Global View” columnist and editorial board member at The Wall Street Journal, at a private dinner reception in Manhattan.

The Foundation presents a $20,000 award to the professional journalist whose work best reflects the spirit that animated the writings of Eric Breindel: Love of country and its democratic institutions, as well as the act of bearing witness to the evils of totalitarianism.

In addition to his work at The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Stephens is a member of Dow Jones’ Senior Leadership Team and a regular panelist on the Journal Editorial Report, a weekly political talk show carried by Fox News Channel.

Mr. Stephens joined the Journal in 1998 as an Editorial Features Editor and moved to Brussels the following year, where he wrote editorials and edited a column on the European Union. He left Dow Jones in January 2002 to become the Editor-in-Chief of the Jerusalem Post, where he was responsible for the paper’s news, editorial, international and electronic editions. He oversaw the paper’s most extensive redesign in its 74-year history and wrote a weekly column.

Mr. Stephens returned to the Journal in late 2004. In January 2005, he was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, where he is also a media fellow. Mr. Stephens was awarded in 2006 by the South Asian Journalism Associated for commentary coverage of the 2005 Kashmir earthquake. In March 2008 he received the Frank Knox Media Award from the N.Y. Council of the Navy League for his contributions to the media in national defense.

The pieces that earned Mr. Stephens the Breindel Award include
“Russian for Chutzpah” (Wall Street Journal), “No Pyrrhic Victory” (Wall Street Journal), “Columbia’s Conceit” (Wall Street Journal), “Waterboarding and Hiroshima” (Wall Street Journal), and “The Allure of Tyranny” (Wall Street Journal).

Past Breindel Award recipients include: Claudia Rosett, Journalist-in-Residence for The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies; Daniel Henninger, Deputy Editorial Page Editor of the Wall Street Journal; Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe, Tom Flannery of the Carbondale News, Jay Nordlinger of the National Review, Mark Steyn, Internationally Syndicated Columnist and Victor Davis Hanson, best-selling author and freelance writer; Michael Kelly, Editor-at-Large of the Atlantic Monthly, was killed in Iraq while covering the war and received the award posthumously. Last year’s winner was Max Boot, Council on Foreign Relations.

In 1977, Eric Breindel graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College, where he was editorial chairman of the Harvard Crimson and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. After receiving his A.B. from Harvard, Eric studied politics at the London School of Economics. He went to Harvard Law School where he received his J.D. in 1982.

Eric became the Editorial Page Editor of the New York Post in 1986 and was appointed Senior Vice President of News Corporation in 1997. His nationally syndicated column appeared weekly in the Post and he was the moderator of a weekly national public affairs television program, Fox News Watch, on the Fox News Channel. A book of his columns, titled A Passion for Truth: The Selected Writings of Eric Breindel, was published in 1998.

The Breindel Foundation, a 501c-3 tax-exempt entity, remains open to those who wish to honor Eric’s memory with a donation. Those interested should write to: Eric Breindel Memorial Foundation, 1211 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10036. For information regarding next year’s submissions, please call Germaine Febles at (212) 843-8031.
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