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.
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 Undocumented People Stranded in American Hospitals |
 Korean Complicity in U.S. Empire |
 Punishments Without Crimes: Virginia’s Immigration Enforcement |
 Investigating Life Sentences |
 Forestry and Extremism in America’s Fire Capital |
 Playing God in Glacier Park |
 America’s Invisible Army: The Crisis of 53 Million Caregivers |
 How Science Is Changing How We Think About Other Animals |