Elise Viebeck, a junior at Claremont McKenna College, won the 2008 Eric Breindel College and University Journalism Award for an investigative story in the Claremont Independent, a CN member paper. Viebeck uncovered a CMC professor's questionable deals involving Nazi-looted artwork. After Viebeck's story generated significant publicity--including a piece in the L.A. Times--the professor resigned his position as director of the school's Holocaust Center.

Since 2006, the Eric Breindel College and University Journalism Award has been given annually 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." The award includes a $10,000 cash prize, plus a paid internship, with free housing, at either the New York Post or the Fox News Channel. Previous winners were John Wilson, also of Claremont McKenna, and Matt Mireles, of Columbia University.

Viebeck will work as an intern at the New York Post next summer. She was a Collegiate Network intern at National Review in Summer 2008.

The Breindel Foundation has awarded a Professional Award since 1999. Past winners include Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe, best-selling author Victor Davis Hanson, columnist Mark Steyn, and Wall Street Journal editorial board member Brett Stephens. The Professional Award features a $20,000 prize.

For more information on the Breindel Award, visit www.ericbreindel.org.