2000 Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship Winners


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35th Annual Competition

WASHINGTON, D.C.----Nine journalists have been selected to receive American journalism's oldest writing fellowship, an Alicia Patterson Foundation grant. The winners were selected through a highly competitive process of screening by two panels of judges, as well as submitting detailed proposals, examples of past work and references. Recipients spend their fellowship year traveling, researching and writing articles on their projects for the APF Reporter, a quarterly magazine published by the Foundation and available via Web site. Fellows’ articles and photo essays are reprinted in newspapers and magazines worldwide.

The fellows are paid $35,000 per year.

The trustees of the foundation also named one fellow in honor of Josephine Patterson Albright, who was a major benefactor of the foundation. The Josephine Patterson Albright fellow is Earl Dotter, a photojournalist from Silver Spring, MD.

The foundation’s fellows for 2000, and their research topics, include:

Zana Briski
Freelance photographer, New York City
Documenting Female and Child Sex Workers in India

Chris Bull
Correspondent, The Advocate, Washington, D.C.
Anti-Gay Violence in America

Bruce Butterfield
Reporter, The Boston Globe, Boston, MA
How a New England Textile Mill Came to Symbolize Social Justice in an Age of Corporate Indifference

Earl Dotter
Freelance photographer, Silver Spring, MD
Commercial Fishing--Our Most Perilous Trade

Doug Foster
Freelance writer, Berkeley, CA
Discoveries in Animal Behavior Research

Julia Klein
Reporter and editor, Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA
History in Play: Contested Museums and Memorials

Shawn Pogatchnik
Reporter, Associated Press, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Looking for Troubles: A Journey to Understand Northern Ireland

James Shreeve
Freelance writer, Takoma Park, MD
After the Code: How Uncovering Our Genetic Code Will Transform Our Lives

Pat Sloyan
Senior correspondent, Newsday, Washington, D.C.
Manipulation of the Media During Military Conflict

In honor of the 35th annual competition, all final judges were former APF fellows, including:

Katti Gray, reporter, Newsday, and APF Fellow ‘98
Colman McCarthy, columnist and author, and APF Fellow ‘98
Victoria Pope, managing editor, U.S. News & World Report, and APF Fellow ‘89
Maggie Steber, director of photography, The Miami Herald, and APF Fellow ‘88
Roberto Suro, reporter, The Washington Post, and APF Fellow ‘93

The Alicia Patterson Foundation fellowship program for journalists was established in 1965 in memory of Alicia Patterson, who was editor and publisher of Newsday for nearly twenty-three years before her death in 1963. One-year grants of $35,000 are awarded to working print journalists to pursue independent projects of significant interest and to write articles based on their investigations for the APF Reporter, a quarterly magazine published by the Foundation, which also is available on this web site's index of back issues

For program information and applications for the 36th annual competition, contact:

Margaret Engel
Executive Director
Alicia Patterson Foundation
1730 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 850
Washington, DC 20006
Phone: (202) 393-5995

Application materials may be downloaded from our Web site, by clicking here.

Applications must be postmarked by October 1, 2000.

	Zana Briski Freelance photographer, New York City Documenting Female and Child Sex Workers in India
	Chris Bull Correspondent, The Advocate, Washington, D.C. Anti-Gay Violence in America
	Bruce Butterfield Reporter, The Boston Globe, Boston, MA How a New England Textile Mill Came to Symbolize Social Justice in an Age of Corporate Indifference
	Earl Dotter Freelance photographer, Silver Spring, MD Commercial Fishing--Our Most Perilous Trade
	Doug Foster Freelance writer, Berkeley, CA Discoveries in Animal Behavior Research
	Julia Klein Reporter and editor, Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA History in Play: Contested Museums and Memorials
	Shawn Pogatchnik Reporter, Associated Press, Belfast, Northern Ireland Looking for Troubles: A Journey to Understand Northern Ireland
	James Shreeve Freelance writer, Takoma Park, MD After the Code: How Uncovering Our Genetic Code Will Transform Our Lives
	Pat Sloyan Senior correspondent, Newsday, Washington, D.C. Manipulation of the Media During Military Conflict