Good News for Science and Environmental Writers A newly endowed fellowship for science and environmental writing is being established this year under a gift by the Cissy Patterson Foundation, of Washington, D.C. The gift of $500,000 will allow the Alicia Patterson Foundation to designate a journalist with an environmental or

The Daily Beast The Louisiana Nazis Who Courted Steve Scalise 1-03-15by Jason Berry Kenny Knight and Howie Farrell, the two men at the heart of the Steve Scalise scandal, were well known in Louisiana politics as longtime operatives of Duke’s Holocaust-denying hate machine. In 1989, a newly registered Republican in

The National Association of Science Writers honored Hillary Rosner (APF’11) with its Science in Society Award on Oct. 1. The award was for a story, “The Color of Bunny,” that appeared in 2012 in the High Country News and in the APF Reporter and was based on Rosner’s APF project

The New York Times featured a book review on 2007 Fellow Miriam Pawel’s recent book “The Crusades of Cesar Chavez.” You can read the full review here: Miriam Pawel review.

Visual Storytelling and Violence: A Conversation with Donna De Cesare (APF 1997) and Fred Ritchin Location: Open Society Foundations–New YorkEvent Date: November 14, 2013Event Time: 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.Speakers: Donna De Cesare and Fred Ritchin Photojournalist Donna De Cesare speaks with NYU professor Fred Ritchin about her new book

Columbia Journalism School Announces Winners of the 75th Annual Maria Moors Cabot Prizes for Outstanding Reporting on Latin America and the Caribbean Special 75th Anniversary Events to include high-level conference on Latin American press freedom NEW YORK, September 5, 2013— The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism today announced the

Fotoseptiembre: Reflejos del mundo – Featuring book signing by photographer Donna De Cesare, a 1997 APF fellow. Join Donna De Cesare with other Austin artists in the Fotoseptiembre exhibition at La Pena. There will be a small exhibition of her work on immigrants shown at Harvard University last spring and

Recently published books from Alicia Patterson Fellows. The Alicia Patterson Foundation is proud to announce the release of four new books from past fellows. Links to the books’ Amazon pages are listed below. Wealth and Power by Orville Schell (APF”80) and John Delury. (Random House).China experts Schell and Delury focus