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
 Expungement: APublic Good with a Dangerous Downside |
 The Life: Sex and Work in America |
 Who Owns the Sky? |
 The Silent Scourage: Inside the Fight Against the Global Snakebite Epidemic |
 Middle East Inc. |
 Mental Health: An Invisible Public Health Crisis |
 Amazon Conservation: Investigating Positive and Negative Models for Preserving the Rainforest |
 The Faltering Fish and Wildlife Service in an Era of Mass Extinction |
 The Battle Over Managed Retreat from Sea Level Rise |
 Dying for Justice in America’s Jails |
 The Catholic Church - Where is it Going |
 Dying for Justice in America’s Jails |
 The Living Casualties of ISIS |
 The Living Casualties of ISIS |
 From Near to Eternity: The Elusive Promise and Enduring Problems of Commercial Nuclear Power |
 Investigating the Forces Behind the Global Rise of Environmental Killings |
 "Papers Without a Country: The World’s Forgotten Archives" |
 The Rights of Nature Movement |
 The Future of Natural Gas |
 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 |
 Women in Russia |
 The Rapidly Changing Alaskan North |
 Mean Streets: Road Ecology and the Future of Transportation Infrastructure |