Alumni News

Deepening support for public-service reporting, the Alicia Patterson Foundation merges into Fund for Investigative Journalism WASHINGTON, DC; December, 2025 – The Fund for Investigative Journalism and the Alicia Patterson Foundation announced that the two organizations are merging, bringing together two of the oldest and largest funders of independent journalism in

Erika Hayasaki Former APF fellow Erika Hayasaki has joined the board of the Alicia Patterson Foundation. Hayasaki is an associate professor of literary journalism at the University of California, Irvine. She won an APF fellowship in 2018 and concentrated on epigenetics and the future of gene editing. A former reporter

Adam Albright The foundation notes, with sadness, the death of Adam Medill Albright, 77, the longtime treasurer and trustee of the Alicia Patterson Foundation. His years of service to the foundation named for his aunt, Alicia Patterson, were a gift to its effective operation. Adam was a stalwart supporter of

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.

James Ridgeway Former APF fellow James Ridgeway (APF’ 2014) died Feb. 13 in Washington, D.C. A hard-hitting reporter, he exposed the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis and inhumane conditions in American prisons, which was the subject of his Patterson fellowship. From environmental pollution to auto safety, he was concerned with the

Bonnie Angelo, a longtime judge for APF competitions and a protegé of Alicia Patterson, died this week. She was an accomplished journalist, for Time Magazine and others, covering the United Nations, domestic and foreign politics and several presidential administrations.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/bonnie-angelo-political-…

APF Fellow Donna DeCesare has just released her first book Unsettled/Desasosiego: Children in a World of Gangs. Some of the original work for this book was done during Ms. DeCesare’s 1997 fellowship. The book is a bi-lingual memoir of Ms. DeCesare’s time photographing gang-life in Central America. Ms. DeCesare’s fellowship

Alice Arlen, Screenwriter With Premier Journalistic Pedigree, Dies at 75 Continue reading the main story at NYTimes.com by clicking the link above.