THE INSTITUTE ON POLITICAL JOURNALISM AWARDS

Jean Rimback and Kathleen Carroll of The Record (Bergen County, NJ) accept the 2007 Clark Mollenhoff Award for Excellence in Investigative Reporting.

Each year the Institute on Political Journalism presents two awards to professional journalists, the Clark Mollenhoff Award for Excellence in Investigative Reporting and the Award for Excellence in Economic Reporting.

In 2006, IPJ announced the newest addition to its journalism awards category, the Thomas L. Phillips Collegiate Journalism Award, which recognizes excellence in work published in collegiate publications that demonstrate an understanding of the basic ideas supporting a free society, including freedom of the press, freedom of speech and free-market economic principles.

All awards are sponsored by IPJ, an intensive summer study and internship opportunity in Washington, D.C. This 8-week program is designed for students looking for professional, hands-on training in print or broadcast journalism.

IPJ is sponsored by The Fund for American Studies in cooperation with Georgetown University. Each year, approximately 100 of the nation's brightest college journalists are chosen to spend the summer in Washington, D.C. at The Institute on Political Journalism. They intern at major news organizations throughout the nation's capital, attend site briefings at various government institutions, hear lectures from Washington's leading reporters and editors and take courses in economics, ethics and leadership at Georgetown.