Congratulations to NR intern Jesse Naiman, who took second place in this year’s Robert Novak Collegiate Journalism Award contest. The Fund for American Studies presented it this afternoon at the National Press Club. Jesse won the award for articles appearing in The Observer at Boston College.

I first started reading Jesse’s articles this spring–and thought they were so good that we offered him an internship in our DC office. He’s now doing great work here. His latest article, on Virginia’s state budget, was posted this morning.