Alumni News

Mark Feldstein’s new book, “Poisoning the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington’s Scandal Culture” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) was reviewed in the Books of the Times. An earlier Washington Post profile was written by Howard Kurtz. A 2009 Alicia Patterson Fellowship provided research funds for Mark.

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns’ new series on baseball, “The Tenth Inning,” features sportswriter Marcos Breton as a commentator for the PBS series. Marcos, along with photographer Jose Luis Villegas, researched Latin American players for their 1996 Alicia Patterson foundation project, “Lost Field of Dreams: The Forgotten Legacy of Latins in

Benoit Denizet-Lewis wrote a cover story for The New York Times Magazine on “Whatever Happened to Teen Romance?” He also discussed the story on NPR’s Talk of the Nation. He has just signed a contract with Simon & Schuster to write a book about addiction in America.

John Margolies’ photographs were part of a State Department presentation in London, where he gave a talk at the Building Centre Trust. He also lectured at the Seattle Art Museum about his photographs from the American roadside.

Larry Tye’s book, based on his Patterson research, was published by Henry Holt. “Rising From the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class” also had book parties at several train stations, including those in Boston and Washington, which honored several of the porters who were interviewed.

Donatella Lorch left Newsweek to become director of the Knight International Press Fellowships in Washington. She can now be reached at lorch@icfj.org.

“War Photographer,” a documentary film on JIM NACHTWEY, was nominated this year for an Oscar award in the documentary feature category. Film director Christian Frei followed Jim as he shot images in South Africa, Somalia and Kosovo, using a micro-camera attached to Jim’s camera. The film also was shown on

Roger Atwood’s book, based on his Patterson reports, was published by St. Martin’s Press. It’s titled, “Stealing History: Tomb Raiders, Smugglers and the Looting of the Ancient World.”