The Alicia Patterson Foundation
2009 Fellowship Winners
The Alicia Patterson Foundation fellowship program for journalists was established in 1965 in memory of Alicia Patterson, who was editor and publisher of Newsday for nearly twenty-three years before her death in 1963. One-year grants of $40,000 and six-month grants of $20,000 are awarded to working print journalists and photographers. Fellows pursue independent projects of significant interest and write/illustrate articles based on their investigations for the APF Reporter, a quarterly magazine of the foundation, available at www.aliciapatterson.org.
The foundation’s fellows for 2009, and their research topics:
Petra Bartosiewicz
Freelance writer, Brooklyn, NY
“The Best Terrorists We Could Find”
Rebecca Clarren
Freelance writer, Portland, OR
“The Unmitigated Impacts of America’s Natural Gas Boom”
Lynne Duke
Freelance writer, Silver Spring, MD
“The Baroness of Bungo: A Woman Slave Trader in Africa”
Mark Feldstein
Journalism associate professor, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
“Muckraking in a Digital Age:
Strengthening Investigative Journalism in the U.S. and Abroad”
Kathleen McAuliffe
Freelance writer, editor, Miami FL
“Human Evolution From the Stone Age to the Present”
Brian Mockenhaupt
Freelance writer, Ferndale, MI
“The Physical and Psychological Effects of War on the Brain”
Judges for the 44th annual competition included:
David Lamb,contributing writer, Smithsonian, author and APF Fellow 1985
John Margolies,freelance photographer, author and APF Fellow 2003
Laura Parker, freelance writer and APF Fellow 1996
Ellen Warren,columnist and senior writer, The Chicago Tribune
For program information and applications for the 45th annual competition, contact:
Director
Alicia Patterson Foundation
1090 Vermont Ave. NW
Suite 1000
Washington, D.C. 20005
Phone: 202/393-5995
Fax: 301/951-8512
Application materials and instructions may be downloaded from our website at: www.aliciapatterson.org/APF_Application/APF_Application.html.
