The publisher and president of RealClear Foundation, David DesRosiers, first started asking himself over a year ago if the news media really needed a rival to the Pulitzer Prize, and when he started asking others, the answer was a resounding yes.

The result became RCP’s brand new Samizdat Prize, whose inaugural winners, journalists Matt Taibbi, Miranda Devine, and Stanford epidemiologist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, all will join Dave Rubin for a live interview at a March 7 awards gala in Palm Beach, Florida.

DesRosiers said RCP wanted to create an event that rewards people of outstanding courage who stood up in front of history and lived up to the high standards of their profession.