Instead, we wish to join forces with them in advocacy of this country's immersion in the world, with real people, on the ground in real places, letting our government and our public know what is really going on. The Weintal Prize is an annual award presented to one or more journalists for distinguished reporting on foreign policy and diplomacy. The Prize is made possible through the will of Edward Weintal, which created an endowment at Georgetown University. Prize recipients are selected by a committee whose original membership was stipulated by the Weintal will. Committee members are Charles Bartlett, chair, Marvin Kalb, David D. Newsom, Hugh Sidey, and Casimir A. Yost.
Competition is open to journalists in both print and broadcast media.
Submissions authored during the previous calendar year are considered for the Prize. He was born in Warsaw and graduated from Oxford. His diplomatic career was ended by the German conquest of Poland, and he began, in 1939, to edit a diplomatic newsletter. He was hired by Newsweek in 1944 and served for twenty-three years as the magazine's diplomatic correspondent. From 1969 until his death he was special consultant to the Director of the United States Information Agency.