IPN Announces 2010 Bastiat Prize Finalists

International Policy Network is pleased to announce the finalists in its ninth Bastiat Prize for Journalism. The competition includes one prize awarded for print journalism ($15,000 total prize money), and one prize awarded for online journalism ($3,000 prize money). Winners and runners-up will be announced in early November.

Seven finalists for the print journalism prize are:

    * Andrew Ferguson, Weekly Standard

    * Peter Foster, National Post, Canada (2009 finalist)

    * Tim Harford, Financial Times (2006 co-winner)

    * Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe

    * Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal

    * Jamie Whyte, freelance (for articles written in The Times and Wall Street Journal; (2006 co-winner)

    * Martin Wolf, Financial Times

Three finalists for the online prize are:

    * James Delingpole, blogger for telegraph.co.uk

    * Philip Maymin, columnist, fairfieldweekly.com and lewrockwell.com

    * Mark Perry, Carpe Diem blog / American Enterprise Institute / University of Michigan

The Bastiat Prize was first awarded in 2002 and judges have included Lady Thatcher and Nobel-Prize-winners James Buchanan and Milton Friedman. The winner of the Bastiat Prize will receive US$10,000, and the winner of the Bastiat Prize for Online Journalism will receive US$3,000. They will also receive an engraved crystal candlestick - a reference to an essay by Frederic Bastiat entitled “A Petition”.

A list of judges is available on IPN’s website: http://www.policynetwork.net/bastiat-prize-judges

For more information, contact Kendra Okonski:

bastiatprize |AT| policynetwork.net

+4420 3393 8410 (UK), +1 202 379 1906 (US).