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AFF $10,000 College Blogger Contest

by Jerry Brito | Sep 17, 2007

America's Future Foundation today announced a contest for college bloggers with a grand prize of $10,000.

The purpose of the contest is to encourage original liberty-minded blogger journalism on college campuses and to identify young conservative and libertarian talent who wish to pursue careers as journalists and writers. The contest is open to all graduate and undergraduate bloggers age 25 and younger.

The winning blog will be awarded a cash prize of $10,000, and be invited to be a panelist at an AFF Roundtable on higher education in Washington, D.C. The award will be announced on April 7, 2008.

A panel of renowned bloggers will judge the contest. Judges include:

- Jonathan Adler of The Volokh Consipracy
- Radley Balko of The Agitator
- Robert Bluey of The Heritage Foundation and RobertBluey.com
- Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online
- Mary Katharine Ham of TownHall.com
- Megan McArdle of JaneGalt.net

To enter, and for the complete set of rules, college bloggers can visit www.americasfuture.org/collegeblogger. There bloggers can enter their site for consideration. The deadline for entries is December 31, 2007. From the entries, AFF will choose ten finalists. The panel of seven judges will then track the blogs between January and April and will then choose a winner.

"The best college bloggers can influence their campuses in two ways," said America's Future Foundation executive director David Kirby. "First, college bloggers can communicate the philosophy of liberty and the economics of free markets to fellow students--ideas rarely taught by their professors. And, second, bloggers can give an inside scoop to trustees and alumni on campus controversies."