America's Future Foundation is pleased to announce a nationwide contest for the best conservative or libertarian college blogger. 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. Awards will be announced on April 7, 2008.
The Judges
Jonathan Adler of The Volokh Conspiracy
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 Asymmetrical Information at TheAtlantic.com
Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit
Competition Rules
Application Deadline: December 31, 2007
To enter America's Future Foundation College Blogger Contest, complete the online registration form to nominate your blog. From all the submitted nominations, AFF will choose ten finalists, which will be announced in January 2008. Contest judges will monitor the finalist blogs and announce a winner in April 2008.
- Applicants must be enrolled as undergraduate or graduate students in an accredited college during the 2007-08 school year and be age 25 or younger.
- Applicants must complete and submit an entry form online no later than December 31, 2007.
- Group blogs are eligible. If you are entering a group blog, at this point, please submit only the name of the blogger who will act as contact person for the group. If your group blog is chosen as a finalist, we will contact you for the names of the other bloggers.
- Judges will judge finalist blogs on quality of the blogs, the intellectual merit of the posts, and the ability of the blogs to make a meaningful contribution to their college campuses. Judges may consider the following criteria:
- Does the blog break news or offer in-depth coverage of major campus events?
- What is the impact the blog has on his or her campus? How can this be demonstrated?
- Does the blog effectively bring conservative and libertarian ideas to their college campus?
- Does the blog demonstrate originality in thinking and analysis?
- How regularly does the blogger post? How many comments does the blog receive on its posts?
- In the case of group blogs, does the grouping of the individuals make sense to its content and/or enhance the quality of the blog?
- The decision of the judges is final. America's Future Foundation reserves the right to not award a prize.