WASHINGTON, D.C.
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
 The Power and Influence of Philanthropy |
 How the Demographic Changes of Chinese Immigrants are Transforming the Politics and Economy of the U.S. |
 Mean Streets: Road Ecology and the Future of Transportation Infrastructure |
 China in Africa: Win-Win Cooperation or Neo-Colonialism? |
 The Rapidly Changing Alaskan North |
 Women in Russia |
 Alaska After Oil |
 Inequality in the Amazon |
 Vaccines for the 21st Century |
 Natural gas pipeline construction in Appalachia |
 Nature, Nurture and Epigenetics |
 Water: The Gulf |
 Syria |
 "The New Silent Spring: Untallied Consequences of Overbuilding" |
 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 |