Final Judges for the 56th 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
 The Silent Scourage: Inside the Fight Against the Global Snakebite Epidemic |
 Middle East Inc. |
 Expungement: A Public Good with a Dangerous Downside |
 Mental Health: An Invisible Public Health Crisis |
 The Life: Sex and Work in America |
 Amazon Conservation: Investigating Positive and Negative Modles for Preserving the Rainforest |
 Who Owns the Sky? |
 The Battle Over Managed Retreat from Sea Level Rise |