Announcing the Bastiat Prizes in Journalism and in Online Journalism
How could we at Bastiat’s Bastions turn down an opportunity to promote an award in journalism called the “Bastiat Prize?” The International Policy Network is the sponsor of this competition.
According to their website, “IPN’s Bastiat Prize for Journalism was inspired by the 19th-century French philosopher and journalist Frédéric Bastiat.
“The prize was developed to encourage and reward writers whose published works promote the institutions of a free society: limited government, rule of law brokered by an independent judiciary, protection of private property, free markets, free speech, and sound science.”
The Bastiat Prize for Journalism provides 3 monetary awards, a first prize of $10,000, a second prize of $4,000 and a third prize of $1,000. In addition, they have begun a new prize this year to recognize the influence of bloggers and the new media, the Bastiat Prize for Online Journalism, which has one winner with a monetary award of $3,000.
The purpose of the prize is certainly consistent with what we try to do here at Bastiat’s Bastions and something we wholeheartedly support, even though we are not sponsoring the prize (if we had that much money to give away here at Bastiat’s Bastions, I am sure it would more likely to go toward the Chad Turner Sports Economics Field Research Fund, the Morris Coats Rent Seekers’ Lobby, and/or the Norbert Michel “Tax Rebates for Norbert Michel” Foundation).
For more information about the awards, take a look at IPN’s press release.
-MC