Posted by
April Lorier on Tuesday, June 09, 2009 11:15:28 PM
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and commentator Charles Krauthammer has been honored again! He won the 11th annual Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Journalism.
Krauthammer -- a regular panelist on FOX News' "Special Report" whose weekly column in The Washington Post
is syndicated in more than 200 newspapers worldwide -- won the $20,000
award for depicting "love of country and its democratic institutions,"
the Eric Breindel Foundation announced Thursday.
Who is Eric Breindel?
Eric Breindel became the Editorial Page Editor of the New York Post in 1986. Breindel was appointed Senior Vice President of Rupert Murdoch's 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.
Charles
Krauthammer was born in New York City and raised in Montreal. He was
educated at McGill University, majoring in political science and
economics, Oxford University (Commonwealth Scholar in Politics) and
Harvard (M.D. in 1975). He practiced medicine for three years as a
resident and then chief resident in psychiatry at Massachusetts General
Hospital.
In 1978, Krauthammer quit medical practice, came to
Washington to direct planning in psychiatric research for the Carter
administration, and began contributing articles to The New Republic. During the presidential campaign of 1980, he served as a speech writer to Vice President Walter Mondale. He joined The New Republic
as a writer and editor in 1981. He writes regular essays for Time
magazine and contributes to several other publications, including The Weekly Standard, The New Republic and The National Interest. He also has a column on Town Hall.
He has been honored by many organizations, from the Center for Security Policy (Mighty Pen Award) to People for the American Way (First Amendment Award). In 2003, he was a recipient of the first annual Bradley Prize. In 2004, he was honored by the American Enterprise Institute with the Irving Kristol Award.
Krauthammer lives in suburban Washington with his wife Robyn, an artist. Their son is a student at Harvard.