Final Judges for the 55th Annual Competition:
Sandy Close – founder, Ethnic Media Services, Pacific News Service and New America Media
To foster, promote, sustain and improve the best traditions of American journalism, the Alicia Patterson Foundation will provide support for journalists engaged in rigorous, probing, spirited, independent and skeptical work that will benefit the public. The foundation will support journalism and will foster a community of journalists engaged in truthfully informing the public.
Alicia Patterson reluctantly became a newspaper publisher in 1940 because her new husband wanted to keep her busy and out of trouble, and because she wanted to show her father that she could be as good a journalist as he was. From that timid start she created the most successful new daily newspaper of the postwar period.
Current Fellows
 Women in Russia |
 The Rapidly Changing Alaskan North |
 Mean Streets: Road Ecology and the Future of Transportation Infrastructure |
 China in Africa: Win-Win Cooperation or Neo-Colonialism? |
 How the Demographic Changes of Chinese Immigrants are Transforming the Politics and Economy of the U.S. |
 The Power and Influence of Philanthropy |
 Syria |
 Following a recently contacted Amazon tribe |
 Natural gas pipeline construction in Appalachia |
 Alaska After Oil |
 Nature, Nurture and Epigenetics |
 Making Things Last - Engineering Resilient Systems |
 Hong Kong at the Edge |
 Public Water - Private Water: An investigation into privatization in the U.S. |
 Factories and Faith: The Working Women of Egypt |
 How Palm Oil is Re-Shaping the World |
 Industrial Accidents - What We Don't Know Can Kill Us |
 Black Money: Corporate Bribery |
 The Seed Banking Crisis: Too Interdependent to Fail |
 California Castoffs in a Toxic Land |
 Press Freedom in Mexico |
 The New Scramble for Africa |