John Podhoretz in The Corner recognizes and congratulates Claudia Rosett on her receipt of the 7th Annual Eric Breindel Award for Opinion Journalism. (Previous recipients read like a Wizblog Favorites list...Michael Kelly, Victor Davis Hanson, Jay Nordlinger, Jeff Jacoby and Daniel Henninger...who did I leave out?). Rosett's groundbreaking reporting on the U.N. Oil-For-Food scandal will be read for years as an authoritative and clear examination of the corruption, as it was unfolding into the public eye. She was snubbed by the Pulitzer crowd, but with the Breindel Award she's in some better company.
UPDATE 6/2: K-Lo salutes Claudia at NRO.
UPDATE 6/2: The New York Sun editorializes...
Journalists mighty and modest gathered at the New-York Historical Society last night for the presentation of the Eric Breindel Prize to Claudia Rosett for her coverage of the oil-for-food scandal at the United Nations.We’d like to be able to say “our own” Claudia Rosett (for she filed some of her reporting on the U.N. scandal for The New York Sun). But no one owns Claudia Rosett. She is a onewoman freelance news service and an extraordinary example to aspiring reporters looking for inspiration at a time of handwringing in the journalistic world.Posted by dan at June 2, 2005 01:20 AM