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Dom Phillips 1964-2022

It is with great sadness that the Foundation acknowledges the death of Dom Phillips, who was researching solutions to protect the Amazon under his Alicia Patterson fellowship.

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Applications are now open for independent writing projects funded by the Alicia Patterson Foundation.

APF Fellow

2021

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Police personnel records routinely kept secret, erased. How that hurts accountability

Miranda Spivack

Miranda Spivack examined the contentious issue of expunging records from public documents during her APF fellowship.

APF Fellow

2021

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States look to help people with criminal records find jobs, housing. What they’re doing

Miranda Spivack

Miranda Spivack examined the contentious issue of expunging records from public documents during her APF fellowship.

APF Fellow

2021

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Can ‘clean slate’ laws really erase criminal records from public view? It’s complicated

Miranda Spivack

Miranda Spivack examined the contentious issue of expunging records from public documents during her APF fellowship.

APF Fellow

2021

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‘Clean slate’ laws would erase criminal records. Do they make America more equitable?

Miranda Spivack

Miranda Spivack examined the contentious issue of expunging records from public documents during her APF fellowship.

APF Fellow

2015

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Arctic Treaty Nears 100 in Heated Climate

Randall Hyman

Arctic Treaty Nears 100 in Heated Climate
Randall Hyman

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Alice Arlen, 75, APF Board President Emeritus, Supported Vital Journalism

Alice Arlen, Screenwriter With Premier Journalistic

APF Fellow

2014

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Reproductive Rights and the Criminal Justice System

Ada Calhoun

This Mom Checked Her Newborn Out of the Hospital Early. The Next Day Her Baby Was Taken Away.
December 3, 2014

APF Fellow

2014

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The Death of a Black Nursing Home

Wallace Roberts

Wallace Roberts
February 2, 2015

APF Fellow

2015

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On The Edge: Reindeer and Climate Change

Randall Hyman

Text and photos by Randall Hyman

APF Fellow

2015

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Immigration

Noé Montes

By Noé Montes
Immigration

APF Fellow

2015

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Downrange in D.C.: What Happens When a Neighborhood is Sitting on Old Chemical Weapons?

Theo Emery

Downrange in D.C.: What Happens When a Neighborhood is Sitting on Old Chemical Weapons?
By Theo Emery

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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.

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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.

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Punishments Without Crimes: Virginia’s Immigration Enforcement
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Sylvia Harvey
Investigating Life Sentences
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Forestry and Extremism in America’s Fire Capital
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Playing God in Glacier Park
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America’s Invisible Army: The Crisis of 53 Million Caregivers
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How Science Is Changing How We Think About Other Animals
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