FROM: Eric Breindel Foundation
              1211 Avenue of the Americas

              Rubenstein Associates, Inc. - Public Relations
              Contact: Germaine Febles (212) 843-8031
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FOURTH ANNUAL ERIC BREINDEL COLLEGIATE JOURNALISM
AWARD GIVEN TO STANFORD UNIVERSITY STUDENT CARL J. KELM

June 2009 (New York, NY) – The Eric Breindel Foundation presented the fourth annual Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Journalism to Carl J. Kelm, a student at Stanford University.

The Foundation presents a $10,000 award to a college or university student 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.

Carl is a native of Modesto, California and a recent graduate of Stanford University with a major in political science and a minor in history. While at Stanford, he joined The Stanford Review and was quickly promoted to News Editor halfway through his freshman year. Carl rose through the ranks, ultimately serving as Editor-in-Chief his senior year. After completing his internship at The Wall Street Journal in New York, he hopes to attend law school.

The pieces that earned Mr. Kelm the Collegiate Breindel Award is titled “Diversity, Take Two” and “Our Gathering Storm.”

Past Collegiate Breindel Award recipients include: Elise Viebeck of Claremont McKenna College, Matt Mireles of Columbia University and John Wilson of Claremont McKenna College, currently an editorial writer for the New York Post, where he interned after winning the Award.

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 go to www.ericbreindel.org or call Germaine Febles at (212) 843-8031.

FROM: Eric Breindel Foundation
              1211 Avenue of the Americas

              Rubenstein Associates, Inc. - Public Relations
              Contact: Germaine Febles (212) 843-8031
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BREINDEL AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM
GIVEN TO CHARLES KRAUTHAMMAER, PULTIZER PRIZE-WINNING
JOURNALIST AND COMMENTATOR

April 02, 2009 (New York, NY) – The Eric Breindel Foundation announced today that Charles Krauthammer, internationally syndicated columnist and commentator, is the winner of the 11th Annual Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Journalism.

Mr. Krauthammer writes a weekly column for the Washington Post that is syndicated in more than 200 newspapers worldwide, is a regular panelist on “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel and is a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard and The New Republic.

Born in New York City, Mr. Krauthammer was raised in Montreal and educated at McGill University, majoring in political science and economics. He also attended Oxford University (Commonwealth Scholar in Politics) and Harvard Medical School where he received his M.D. in 1975. He then served three years as a psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital.

In 1978 he began contributing articles to The New Republic and then served as a speechwriter to Vice President Walter Mondale during the 1980 Presidential campaign. In 1985, Krauthammer coined and developed 'The Reagan Doctrine'. In 1991, he published “The Unipolar Moment,” a seminal article in defining the structure of the post-Cold War world.

Financial Times named Mr. Krauthammer as America’s most influential commentator in 2006. He has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, National Magazine Award for essays, and the first annual Bradley Prize.

The Foundation presents the $20,000 award to the winner 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.

About Eric Breindel
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.

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