Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism

The Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism, also known as the Eric Breindel Journalism Award, was an annual award commemorating Eric Breindel, a former editorial page editor of the New York Post, which existed from 1999 through 2012. It was given to "the columnist, editorialist or reporter who best reflects the spirit of Mr. Breindel's writings: Love of Country and its democratic institutions as well as the act of bearing witness to the evils of totalitarianism."

The award was instituted in 1999 with an endowment from Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, and was administered by the Eric Breindel Memorial Foundation. From 2006 onwards, winners received $20,000; earlier winners received $10,000.

A second award, the Eric Breindel Collegiate Journalism Award, was given annually from 2006. As of 2009, it offered $10,000 plus a paid internship at Fox News Channel, The Wall Street Journal, or the New York Post.

The awards used to be announced in June every year.

The last awards were made in 2012; no further awards have been made since. The Eric Breindel Memorial Foundation has not filed a Form 990 with the IRS since 2014.

Eric Breindel Journalism Award winners

2012	Andrew Ferguson
2011	Fouad Ajami
2010	Mona Charen
2009	Charles Krauthammer
2008	Bret Stephens of The Wall Street Journal
2007	Max Boot
2006	Mark Steyn
2005	Claudia Rosett
2004	Daniel Henninger
2003	Michael Kelly
2002	Victor Davis Hanson
2001	Jay Nordlinger
2000	Tom Flannery, then a columnist at The Carbondale News
1999	Jeff Jacoby

Eric Breindel Collegiate Journalism Award winners

2012	Angela Hunt, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
2011	Charles C. Johnson, Claremont McKenna College
2010	John-Clark Levin, Claremont McKenna College
2009	Carl Kelm, Stanford University
2008	Elise Viebeck Claremont McKenna College
2007	John Wilson, Claremont McKenna College
2006	Matt Mireles, Columbia University